Covid, infections on the rise: some call for a return to distance education – School News



[ad_1]

L ‘coronavirus contagion escalation that Italy has been having in recent days begins to worry school workers: with a rising curve of infections according to many, we must accept the fact that distance learning is inevitable.

“Let’s go back to distance learning”

We are not just talking about comments that have reached our social networks on the subject. During the week we receive some letters in the editorial office reflecting the adoption of the distance education to avoid contagion problems: “As it was easy to imagine a few months ago, benches on wheels, stickers on the floor, and disinfectant gel are not enough to prevent the spread of Covid-19 within schools.“Writes the reader Giuseppe Iaconis inviting us to return”Fly into distance learning in lower and upper secondary schools, at least until a vaccine is available.“.

Thought shared by another reader who proposes to the father to avoid problems: “lThe socialization of children is still respected, even with distance education, because they find a way to meet and in fact, they have more time available, because, if they do not travel, they save up to two hours a day, time and health! !

ICOTEA_19_inside article

It is not true that schools are not a vehicle for the transmission of viruses, in fact the reopening of schools has drawn attention to the problem of the increase in symptomatic or asymptomatic casesRead another letter.

For now still in presence

For now, the Ministry and the Government tend to be optimistic: on the night of October 9, the Ministry of Education provided other updated numbers of covid cases in schools: students that are positive as of the date of October 3 they are 2,348, or 0.037%; the Pnon-teaching staff what is positive is equal to 0.079%, therefore 144 cases; the staff what is positive is 0.059%, that is, 402 cases.

Therefore, in the opinion of Viale Trastevere, the conditions exist for the moment to return to indiscriminate distance education.

A solution that, although restructured thanks to the guidelines of integrated digital educationHowever, it would penalize the lower end of the student population, especially that of the kindergarten and elementary school.

On the other hand, it is inevitable that for a few days you will be holding your breath due to numbers always on the rise in new cases of covid, with the idea that it will immediately run into a new lockdown.

[ad_2]