Scuola, Zaia: “So that we can organize distance learning to avoid total stops”

Where did the idea come from?
“With the closing of schools, families with young children went crazy. So why not evaluate in advance a possible distance learning plan alternating with face-to-face lessons with children aged 16 years and over? Let’s talk about it now because it takes time to fine-tune the whole technological part: it’s called programming and optimization. I would like to remind you that the guidelines on the school drawn up in July by Veneto, then borrowed from all the Italian regions, already provide for mixed classroom and distance learning. So there is no crime of treason.

Are you talking about the reaction of Minister Azzolina?
“I tell the minister that the opening of schools is a necessity for everyone, says one who fought for the reopening. The issue is another: if you go on vacation in the sun all week, you can pack an umbrella in your suitcase anyway. Afterwards, the competence lies with the minister and the government since, unfortunately, they have not granted us autonomy. What I said will remain in the end and we will see who was right. “

Excuse me, didn’t you talk about “dad” tout court and not a stand-in? Are you taking a step to the side?
“I’ve never talked about dad tout court. Let’s be clear: I proposed an alternative dad conceived in an organic way that is different from what happens now in schools in many regions, not in Veneto, which do not have enough classrooms. It should be calibrated on the subject of meetings and transportation, ensuring a responsive alternation to the later classes of high school with minimal impact on the school experience. If there are those who feel they are victims of betrayal, read carefully what I say. The synthesis not authorized by the newspapers was carried out by another ».

Better explain what it would consist of …
«In my idea of ​​process optimization, it does not mean to stop having social relationships at school, because school is also and above all that. But if you decide to make a serious plan, with the Japanese Lean method of industrial organization, you decide that you do the Dad in rotation, one or two days a week, for the third, fourth and fifth grade of high school. This would lessen the pressure on the means of transportation but would also increase the cubic meters of air available at the school. And then: who forbids us that the city’s cinema can be equipped for distance education? This is already being done for universities. It also takes some creativity. However, traditional training would take most of it. ‘

When do you think this programming should start?
“It can’t be done in the morning, but we can’t afford to wait for the problem to explode either.».

How heavy is the restriction of the means of transport?
“We said it was going to be a problem. Unfortunately, the government makes provisions for productive activities without considering all the consequences. Now, with the new Dpcm, the professions that revolve around organizing a wedding are battling. Behind a ceremony there are people who work: the pastry chef, the wedding planner, the florist. Limitations make sense if you refresh those who make this sacrifice on behalf of the community. As a Conference of the Regions, we have produced a series of observations on the new Dpcm, which for us is still halfway to the ford ».

It highlights that it is in “Covid mode” which is “without controversy” …
«I carry out constructive and collaborative interventions. I am surprised that the subject of school is not approached without thinking that by doing so it will sooner or later explode.