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Leave the choice between face-to-face and online classes to parents: we asked for their opinion, we asked them to tell us how as teachers, students, parents, they are going through this difficult period. Numerous testimonials sent to [email protected]
We thank those who wanted to leave us a message for or against the possibility that parents choose the type of teaching, which we will publish anonymously unless otherwise requested, we bring to your attention a testimony that comes from Lombardy, red zone with primary schools and first grade of lower secondary school in attendance. But saying “in presence” does not usually equate to a situation of tranquility.
“Signed letter – The writer is a pre-pandemic family that has always vehemently opposed any derogation from the obligation to attend. I never thought I’d find myself in a situation where I’d rather have my daughter at home than send her to school.
But whoever writes to you does so from the epicenter of the red zone par excellence. I write from Milan, epicenter in the epicenter of Lombardy, which looking at the data is (again) one of the sickest regions in Europe: a region that travels with 200 deaths a day, a number of deaths that shows a clear underestimation of infections, which is to be expected given that follow-up has been skipped for a couple of months. Region where testing is done only now on symptomatic patients: After gradually biting the definition of “close contact”, it has now been decided that, in close contacts, the test is not done well or well. Region where hospitals are now on the verge of saturation.
Here it must be said, it must be said what is school in Lombardy, Como, Varese, Milan these days. The school in the emergency health zones is NOT safe, it cannot be safe from the moment the follow-up was skipped, which was an integral part of the school safety plan, and it cannot be as the regional provisions practically no longer require quarantine. if a teacher is positive. As I said, the tracing is gone and the children, largely asymptomatic, are no longer detectable. Teachers, if they are positive, should take responsibility for saying that they have kept masks and spaces, so that children do not have close contact. And if someone gets infected, they also run the risk of having problems, because it is implicitly assumed that it is their fault, that they have not followed the protocols.
But all this does not work, and we all have a friend, relative, brother or brother-in-law who got sick, because he teaches, because he is addicted to ATA, because the son’s partner was positive. But we must continue. And so the Milanese school, the Monza school, the Brianza and Varese school these days are imbued with the terror of the father with cancer forced to send his son to school, the teacher with the weight of responsibility and perhaps a elderly father at home, of the child who has already seen his little brother intubate.
If the school was the same as always, it could be said that, perhaps, it is worth it. But what is school like in times of COVID? There is talk of a school with a severe shortage of teachers, who are often positively forced to teach from home. Children huddled in front of a single monitor, despite the distance, in a cold classroom (literally, as the windows must remain wide open) and poorly connected, supervised by a janitor, with the teacher teaching from home, using his sick hours, just for a good heart. Distance learning, but in the classroom. In the worst case, if the teacher is not willing to use sick hours, perhaps because he is simply too ill, substitutes are followed by substitutes, or the class is simply parked at an ATA. And despite this, the children are forced to attend.
What about children at home in isolation? It happens more often than I would like to admit that these are abandoned by the institutions, challenging the right to education, because the few teachers present have to manage the classes in presence. The DDI ghost would foresee the DAD for them, in fact this happens that it is not activated in elementary school. So they are left alone, in critical situations, with families in isolation and, perhaps, a parent in intensive care. Yes, this also happens.
How can we think that in this precarious situation, giving families the option, as is already done in America, affects, at this moment, the right to education? If anything, you can work in the opposite direction: by forcing schools to activate DAD, there is no risk that if a child is isolated as a COVID-positive family member, this child will be left to himself and left behind. in the class; It prevents a scared parent (for more than legitimate reasons) from making their child stumble to relax or withdraw them from school. All this while maintaining a real distance at school for those who have to go to school and putting, this time for real, classes in safety.
However, there is talk of an emergency situation, in which secondary schools are already in Distance Education for the same reasons: why they impose the obligation to attend to children up to 12 years of age, when schools are clearly open because Is the service necessary for childcare, and not because they are safe?
And this is the question I would like to ask you: how can compulsory schooling be imposed in such a situation? How can families be forced to give up health, life, when there are alternatives and they are already implemented in other regions of Italy and at other educational levels? It is not fair that a family from Apulia or Campania or one with children old enough to stay home alone has the opportunity to safeguard their health, and a Lombard family, on the other hand, has the obligation to risk their lives and not have the opportunity to take advantage of technological tools that, in fact, should already be activated in schools.
When we said “we will remain open at all costs”, it was necessary to anticipate what that “at all costs” implied: teachers, sick, in DAD and students, present, followed by ATA staff, who follow the video lessons in class, while the unfortunate ones who have fallen ill, in addition to the trauma of perhaps having a parent or grandparent in intensive care, are left behind in the program. However, elementary school, in the red zone, in a pandemic, this is it.
This is what many people close to me are experiencing.
All this with hospitals collapsing and tracking missing for almost 2 months. In fear that if you’re next, there might not be a hospital bed for you. “
Teaching “on demand”, leaving the choice to parents between face-to-face and online lessons but with incentives for teachers. what do you think about it?
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