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Prato, September 8, 2020 – The emergency shutdown It’s over, but Chinese citizens continue to fear the coronavirus. So afraid that until now they have been convinced to leave home alone with great care: few vacations, few dinners in restaurants, few commercial activities reopened. An unofficial but quite compact lock. And now a survey circulating on ‘WeChat‘, he social network preferred by orientals, which is sensational. Yes, because according to the results of this digital consultation, 94% of parents Chinese present in Italy will not send their children to school. September 14 will be a day like any other for them. And it certainly won’t be a day in class.
Now this survey, of course, cannot be called a real survey. And no one can really say if the sample of those who participated is in some way fully representative of reality. But the amount of adherence to the question launched by the Chinese online newspaper ‘Yidali Daquan’ (or ‘All you need to know in Italy’) leaves more than one conviction that really next Monday we will see very few Chinese students in classes of Italian and in those of Prato in particular, which are the most front-line realities with some eight thousand oriental children enrolled.
Last night, the numbers said this: more than 50,000 visits for that publication and almost 7,000 people who said they wanted to have their children at home next Monday. The survey question, which has been circulating since last Saturday, reads as follows: «The Italian school is about to reopen. Parents in the Chinese community, are you willing to send your children to school? ». There are two response options: “No, I do not want to send my child to school at the moment” and “Yes, I will send my child to school for the start of the new school year on September 14, in compliance with regulations. school”. This last option was chosen by just over 500 people, which represents about six percent of the total.
The overwhelming majority of parents, about 94%, are aligned on the opposite side, that of the lockout and the hyper prudent line. “I’m not going to send my daughter to school – says Susanna, a Chinese mother who lives in Prato – I should start first grade, but we are too scared, I will keep her and the intention will then be to send her to China so as not to lose her.” year, as did my cousin with her baby.
Lucia, a mother of three, also a resident of Prato, has the same idea: «I don’t even think about it – she says – Nobody can guarantee the safety of my children and the Italian school system seems to me in chaos. I prefer not to risk it. I would never forgive myself if something happened to my children. There is always time to go back to school and recover, but health comes first.
An attitude that has always characterized the response of eastern citizens at the end of the confinement. Because while Italians slowly returned to normality, instead they continued to live by putting three key concepts first: prevention, protection, and prudence. Which now is probably amplified even more after the news, always reaching Prato, of the first cases of oriental citizens infected by the coronavirus.
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