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Francesco Rutigliano – “The weekly monitoring of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità says that the transmission of the virus within schools is still limited: outbreaks at school in the week of October 12 to 18 are only 3.5% of all new outbreaks that are registered in the country. But the most surprising figure is another: the previous week (October 5-11) they were 3.8%. So the number of outbreaks within schools has decreased in proportion to the total The ISS confirms that the risk of transmission of the virus is still very low in schools. ”The Minister of Education, Lucia Azzolina, writes this on social networks.
The statement by the Minister of Education leads us to reflect. Assuming the outbreaks in schools decreased, but avoiding infections in schools, isn’t that better?
During the closure, distance learning, although with many implementation difficulties, was a replacement model for face-to-face teaching.
Thanks to this modality, it has really helped to reduce infections. It is true, however, that AD for primary and first grade education has created difficulties for parents, who have been faced with a reality never faced before.
In any case, looking at the specificity of the school situation, that is, the marathon between the firmness of the school in the presence and that of Distance Education, the scope of the emergency, which has expanded dramatically since mid-August , puts us in front of options that we never wanted. It is necessary to define a new normal, in which each one of us, and obviously also the school, adapts to the contingent situation and the limitations it imposes. We should not minimize the fact that “the number of outbreaks within schools has decreased, in proportion to the total”, or that “within schools the risk of transmission of the virus remains very low”. We all want the normality of “teaching”, unfortunately this absurd enemy of Covid-19 does not allow us to carry out this “normality”.
In this new stage, the right to education, guaranteed constitutionally, should not lead us at all to pretend that the emergency does not exist. It is true that any problem must be faced, but in this challenge we are inferior, we do not know where the enemy is hiding.
Sometimes it hits because of our carelessness, sometimes it hits because it is concealed, sometimes it sneaks in even in the presence of protection. In the school, the impact of this emergency situation has had a great repercussion, and we are about to relive it, whose intensity is directly proportional to the objectivity that we face every day, as well as to the multitude of people and relationships that each school establishes. Everyone, in some way, comes into contact with the school world, either directly through their children or indirectly through a nephew or any other relative. The school environment, which makes its being a “community” and its “social dimension” its distinctive feature, must be preserved from questionable decisions.
From the various primary and unofficial news circulating, we learn that the Government is considering issuing new restrictions, in which, however, it leaves much discussion where the DAD would be assumed for 75% of high schools. The daily data on infections should make us reflect on the possibility of protecting, at the same time, both the right to education in secondary schools (which can be implemented with Distance Education) and the right to health of the students themselves (which can be protected by following home teaching). The characteristic of ordinariness that we want to give to DaD is attested by the danger of COVID-19 that requires containing the contagion. With this, the school, as it did during the confinement, will have to face a DDA that no longer has unexpected events and uncontrolled variables.
It should be noted that how the possibility of resorting to DDA facilitates the organization of time and space in upper secondary education compared to first cycle school, where this possibility was expressly excluded from the 2020-2012 school plan1.
Through the DDA, in fact, in secondary schools an effective reduction in the use of public transport will be able to be guaranteed, which is particularly worrying because of the consequences to limit the infection. With the awareness that education in the digital age should not represent the ordinary, but a new model of didactic interaction linked to the health emergency. The fact is that the approach of technologies aims to prepare students for the development of skills that are at the center of today and that will be at the center of their lives.
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