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The meeting between the Minister of Education Lucía Azzolina and the metropolitan mayors ended. From what was learned of Ansa, Azzolina would have proposed to the mayors the date of December 9 for the return to school of the boys currently in Papá.
“I was very appreciative of the collaborative spirit that emerged from today’s meeting with the mayors of the metropolitan areas. We all agree that school is a priority, we work together to gradually bring students to class ”, said the minister at the end of the meeting.
Mayors: willing to cooperate
“We have offered our maximum willingness to collaborate with the government: the common goal is to reopen the schools. An objective with all evidence of the interest of children and young people in the double perspective of limiting early school leaving and guaranteeing the essential sociability assured in the first classes ”.
Antonio Decaro, president of ANCI and mayor of Bari, said at the end of the meeting called by the minister.
“Our maximum and unified will to collaborate, however, cannot ignore some issues on which we have once again urged the minister and, through her, the entire government ”..
Provinces: reopen in stages
“The Provinces have been working since July to ensure the opening of secondary schools in the presence of the 2 million and 500,000 secondary school students, with small interventions in buildings, buying desks and renting new spaces where necessary. Obviously we are in favor of boys and girls returning to the classroom, but for high school it must be done gradually and balanced, so as not to have to intervene with sudden braking ”. This was stated by the president of the Union of Provinces of Italy, Michele De Pascale, commenting on the proposal made by Minister Azzolina to the mayors.
“Are we passing too often from one excess to another – he added -, first everything at a distance, then everything in presence, then again everything in DAD and now again everyone in presence? It is necessary to move in stages, reaching the highest possible percentage of presence from time to time, but also continuing to use, in turn, the integrated digital teaching tools that allow avoiding situations with a greater risk of spreading the infection. We begin by strengthening what is already being done in laboratory activities or for girls and boys with special educational needs, who cannot be the only ones who attend, with clear risks of discrimination ”, concludes the president.
The (debated) date of December 9
The date of December 9 for the restart had already been circulated as a hypothesis yesterday. Prime Minister Conte himself stressed the need for schools to reopen before Christmas and said the government “is working for it.”
The Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, is prudent: “In the red zones the Government has made a very clear choice to try to protect the schools, keeping an important part of them open, because we believe that they are an absolute priority. We will evaluate the data day by day ”, said the minister.
For the president of the Veneto region, Luca Zaia, the return from secondary school in December “is an urban legend.”
“I realize that there are different needs like that of the school, which is very important, but reopening too soon to close would be an even worse setback,” warned Massimo Galli, director of the Sacco Hospital in Milan and professor of infectious diseases of the University. State.
The coordinator Agostino Miozzo at Foro Ansa reiterates the need to “return the children to school as soon as possible”. “School today is not a danger. Conditions have changed and the school environment is a relatively safe environment. The problems are before and after school ”.
“For the 5 Star Movement, the path is clear: reopen as soon as possible,” tweets Gianluca Vacca, group leader of the M5S at the Montecitorio Culture Committee. “Transportation and health must be improved so as not to harm children. I hope that in the meeting of the heads of delegation with Conte, the majority will be united in protecting the right to education ”, he adds.
Mayor of Genoa: more funds for transport
“Today the mayors spoke with the Minister of Education, Lucía Azzolina, about the problems of the school, whose reopening is still in doubt either before or after Christmas. We ask for more funds from the cities and metropolitan municipalities for the public transport of students, both by increasing buses in general and introducing new specific buses only for school transport ”. So the mayor of Genoa Marco Bucci tonight at the press point on the coronavirus emergency urges the government to allocate a new ad hoc resource for school public transport with a view to back to school.
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