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Sent by Marinella Tenebruso – This is a letter of denunciation, to draw everyone’s attention to the situation we teachers are experiencing in this period of pandemic.
We have accepted everything, we respect security protocols, we cover the absences of colleagues, we continue to teach even in this difficult period. But we cannot accept the way a system that no longer sustains us treats us.
We cannot accept and pretend that nothing has happened when we see that in cases of positive results in classes, students continue to attend regularly even while waiting for the swab, putting everyone’s health at risk. In the beginning there was a rule that in case of positivity in the class, the class was closed, the students were quarantined, and distance education was activated. What happened in the meantime? What went wrong? The increase in cases in schools has caused the swab and tracing system to go haywire. Who pays the costs? Obviously teachers who spend many hours in crowded classrooms and who defend themselves with a surgical mask.
If the teacher is the one who is positive, no tracing or swabs are made either to the students or to the classmates and this simply because the teacher protects himself and others with a mask, with distancing and with respect for the famous ” protocol. “It is not taken into account that students are not immobile statues, they spend 8 hours in school between didactic activities, dining room and recreation. How can we say that school is a” safe “place where the virus cannot enter or circular? It is a safe place only on paper because the reality is different and only those who work there and who are living these days with anxiety and concern know it well.
We cannot accept continuing to attend school in the presence of positive cases found and that traces and buffers are not made in the classes because too much time has passed since contact with the “case” or because if it is the teacher who is the “case” trusts your sense of responsibility in following the protocol. This puts the health of students, teachers and families at risk. Teachers are making great sacrifices to carry out school activities during this period, controlling and supervising the compliance of the rules by the students.
We live with anxiety every moment of the day, when a student gets too close or does not hold the mask correctly and especially during breaks or lunch in the dining room. We don’t complain, we love our work and we want to do it at all costs. But not at the cost of our health, because right now, in the midst of the pandemic, we feel abandoned and unprotected as workers and as people.
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