Start of school 2020, how’s back to school going: live coverage

9.22 – Bonetti: The time has come for children and young people
Today Tommaso and Chiara go to school. I accompanied them with the look of a mother, feeling their emotion, fear, desire. And to feel deeply that this beginning represents a reason for all of us to have hope again. The Minister of Family and Equal Opportunities Elena Bonetti writes on Facebook, stressing that now is her moment, the moment of the protagonism of children and young people, of their right to be considered fully citizens today. Encounter, relationship, study, discovery: the school that reopens its opportunity for the future.

9.03 am – Mayor Nembro: Restart opening signal
Today we experience great emotion, which I read, beyond the masks, in the eyes of the boys who entered the doors. The reopening of schools is the clearest sign of the restart in our troubled territory. the comment of Claudio Cancelli, mayor of Nembro, who follows the reopening of the school this morning. The entire community – adds the mayor – has contributed to this restart, which is the most obvious sign of the return to normalcy. Schools, but also parents and many volunteers have, in recent days, helped this reboot. Because we are all excited and excited about it.

9.01 – Rome, lessons on the territory
All the IC Visconti classes, between primary and infant, will be involved with teaching in the area. So today the first day of classes for one of the classes will take place between the Pantheon, the Piazza della Minerva and a visit to the Archaeological Park of the Colosseum. Let’s get off to a great start – says one of the teachers involved in the project enthusiastically – and exploit a unique cultural heritage in the world and often in the open air.

8.58 am – Salvini: Good luck to parents
Good luck to the moms and dads listening. They will be complicated months, there is too much uncertainty. We have made many proposals from April onwards. There are more than a million children without a classroom, in Rome and Lazio in a thousand classes there are no desks. Not forgetting the universities: students who pay fees and rents and half of the Italian universities, unique in Europe, do not open all year. So the leader of the League, Matteo Salvini, on Rtl 102.5.

8.51 am – Primary and secondary school in Milan, only six classes out
Out of around 250 primary and secondary schools in Milan, currently only six classes remain. At the moment there are only 6 classes (the others have no problems) from the elementary school in via Graf, which for today are not resumed in the classrooms. Tomorrow and all week they will be teaching in the nearby park. And if it rains or there are other problems, they will use the parish precinct. They informed the municipality that they will return to their classes after the referendum.

8.38 am – In a primary school in Rome, banks with the Cuba method
The Cuba method will be used in the Plexus Alonzi of the inclusive Padre Semeria institute, in Rome, that is, the primary school children will have to sit alternately on the long side and on the short side of the bench, because neither the wheels nor the The singles. It is certainly not the most comfortable position to sit for 5 hours or more. What mothers complain at the entrance to the school in the Garbatella area, where masks are also missing, some parents complain.

8.37 am – Governor Cirio on Facebook tests his daughter’s fever
Measured fever, signed self-certification. Even in the house of the governor of Piedmont, Alberto Cirio, we prepare for the start of the school year by respecting the regional ordinance that requires families to certify the temperature of their children and schools to control it. At Cirio’s house we prepare to go to school, writes the regional president on his Facebook profile, commenting on the photo in which he measures his daughter’s temperature. The regional ordinance has sparked several controversies in recent days, but schools have adapted to the provisions. At the moment, there are some queues at the entrance of some institutes, but in general there are no particular problems. Many schools have been equipped with thermochannelizers, differentiating the entrances to avoid meetings.

8.37 am – First day of school for Prime Minister Conte’s son
First day of school also for Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte’s son, Niccol, who arrived this morning at Belli-Col di Lana Secondary School, in the Prati district, where he is in third grade. The boys were greeted by the director. The prime minister, awaited by cameras and journalists at the entrance of the institute, has not been seen. The director, Carla Costetti, commented: I think that President Conte, a figure who should take a back seat, is going to protect his son. This is neither better nor worse: unfortunately there are roles in which parenthood cannot be exercised with the freedoms with which one would like. Meanwhile, a banner with the inscription Voice to the students in black and red appeared this morning, before the start of the lessons, in front of one of the side entrances of the school.

8.35 am – In Milan protest banners in front of secondary schools
Welcome back! (..but how?). We are back (… but how?). what we read in the banners that hang in front of numerous institutes in Milan, from Agnesi to Manzoni, from Berchet to Tito Livio, from Vittorio Veneto to Vittorini, signed by school collectives or by Rsm, the Milan student network. The students protest against the rules decided by the government for the reopening, which prohibit social moments such as the intermission and, therefore, they also called a demonstration on September 25.

8.24 – Ascani: the centrality of the school has been rediscovered
They have been very difficult months. Working, often in silence. Of problems and obstacles to overcome. Months in which we finally talked about school again not only among professionals, but also in the family, in the bar, on the street. No matter how much factual knowledge the public debate took place, it is important that all of Italy have rediscovered the centrality of their school. Today we begin again. Deputy Minister of Education Anna Ascani writes on Facebook.

Mineral 8.20 – Message from Minister Azzolina
Students have a great desire to go back to class and regain sociality. This will be a complex year, we know, but we have worked hard and built a prevention strategy that will work if everyone does their part responsibly. Having a V shape is an important sign for a territory that has suffered but has never abandoned its students. It will be a beautiful day. So Minister Lucía Azzolina, this morning, a One morning, wishing students and students happy school year.

7.50 am – Return to the classroom of more than 5.6 million girls and boys
There are more than 5 million and 600 thousand students resuming classes today, September 14, with schools reopening in most regions. In total – according to data from the Ministry of Education – there are more than 8.3 million students who are among schools this year: 7,507,484 in state institutions, to which are added the approximately 860,000 peers.