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Genoa – The President of the Liguria Region denounced the incident, Giovanni toti, who posted a post on Facebook, elementary school kids on their knees on their first day of school in the coronavirus era. A text that accompanies a very explicit photo: “The Azzolina WayThese are the students of a Genoese class, who write on their knees because they don’t have the desks you promised. And unfortunately they would not be the only ones! Our children, teachers and families – Toti emphasizes – do not deserve this treatment, especially after the sacrifices made in these months in which it was also a moral duty to work to avoid all this. I find it unacceptable and am already writing a letter to the school management to intervene immediately. An image like this is not worthy of a civilized country like Italy.
Next, Toti’s post on Facebook
The photo of the children, taken by Toti, was taken at an institute in the Castelletto neighborhood by some parents, and is went viral on the web. Until the amplification brought by the participation of the governor of Liguria. This school has not yet received single-seater benches, a condition that also affects other institutions, in fact there are some 15,000 single-seater or wheeled desks that have not yet been delivered.
The discomfort that children experienceI angered many parents who met at the entrance of the school to evaluate what to do: a letter to the regional director of the school to protest, this is the action taken. The posts should arrive in the next few hours.
In this regard, Governor Toti asked the general director of the Liguria school office, Ettore Acerra, for explanations. “We ask to know – read the letter – what are the delivery times that have been assured to the schools by the extraordinary commissioner for the emergency based on conversations with the Ministry of Education. We request to identify an adequate solution to face the situation indicated above that is considered unacceptable and does not comply with the provisions to guarantee a regular start of the school year ”. Toti, together with the regional councilor for Education, Ilaria Cavo, asked Acerra to report on any other critical issue in the regional territory, as well as a “precise clarification on the masks always assured by the extraordinary Commissioner.”
The director: «Exploited children. The posts arrive tomorrow “
“The desks, ordered well in advance, will arrive tomorrow afternoon and on the first day of classes, which was a day of celebration, we just avoid putting the old ones back on”: Renzo Ronconi, director of the Castelletto Institute of Genoa, justifies for this The photo, which has gone viral, shows elementary school children on their knees using chairs as desks to write, or with their notebook folded on their knees so they can draw or sitting on the floor. “The photo,” explained the director, “shows children who, during an educational activity, draw serenely in freedom: naivety on the part of the teacher to make it turn but wrong and seriously to exploit it, exploit it, especially children.” «In my institute I have found trained and motivated teachers that I defend and children who are smiling and happy to go back to school. This is the image that I carry in my heart from this first day and that I want to stay with the families and the teachers – continues Professor Ronconi -. The school I have been running since September 1 did a great job in the summer months to organize the reopening. Like many other schools, it has faced the difficulties of the past few days with a constructive and collaborative spirit. Among these difficulties, the delays in the delivery of the furniture.
The other reactions
Paita (Iv): “Unacceptable situation, we must remedy”
“It is unacceptable that, despite the months of preparation to return to class, the children of Liguria today have been forced, in the absence of desks, to manage writing on their knees.” This was stated by Raffaella Paita, deputy of Italia Viva. «We believed that the long and complicated preparation and, above all, the repeated guarantees of Minister Azzolina about an orderly resumption of the lessons, were sufficient. Unfortunately, we were wrong. We ask for a remedy as soon as possible because a school without the most basic tools for teaching is a school that sees its educational function compromised ”, she concludes.
