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If only for the doubts of the Director of Prevention of the Ministry of Health, Gianni Rezza. Two days ago the governor of Veneto Luca Zaia had already laid his hands on himself, who has always smelled the wind before the others: if the 7th schools open in a situation like this, I have the impression that we hurt ourselves. The leaders of Piedmont with a certain practical attitude have already written a letter to Governor Alberto Cirio with a proposal: we will reopen on January 11, or better yet, January 18. An idea that the governor of Friuli Massimiliano Fedriga also shares.
The nightmare of closing immediately
In this climate, the Ministry of Education does not have too many illusions about the fact that the Dpcm of December 4, which announced the reopening of the institutes on January 7, will be able to continue as it is until the end of the holidays. Our objective remains, but an evaluation of the contagion situation will have to be made at the end of the year, Minister Lucía Azzolina explained, and that day she wants to develop a credible plan ready to be implemented, to guarantee maximum safety in schools. . She must also have doubts if she keeps repeating that during the Christmas holidays we must also make sacrifices to get the children back to school as soon as possible. And even more than the fear that January 7 is not the actual date for the reopening of secondary schools after two months of distance education, the ministry has a nightmare scenario of a return to school in January followed by a fast backward movement: and this – Azzolina also knows – neither she nor the government can afford it, it would be a real defeat. Unfortunately, a real risk according to insiders, as explained by the dean of the Volta of Milan Domenico Squillace: in mid-January the effects of the Christmas meetings will be paid and, if the contacts recede, the first to close will be the schools: a risk That would be avoided by returning in February.
Tracking
Furthermore, more than the number of infections in schools, the incidence of which in the total number of Covid patients is still debated for a long time, it is what complicates the reopening of secondary schools: tracing – for every student or teacher who becomes infected , at least thirty tampons to your contacts and the local health authorities can not hold. To reopen – says Pierluigi Nigri, vice president of pediatricians – there must be a center in each municipality to take samples from students and teachers.
Directors’ doubts
As for the plan Azzolina wants to have ready for the day she has to advocate for the return of high school students to the council of ministers, easier said than done. The prefects, as predicted by the last Dpcm, will have the last word. But in the first few meetings these days the idea of staggering the innings after 10 in the morning is losing coherence almost everywhere. We can accept no later than 10 am as the last hour – explains Mario Rusconi, president of the Association of Deans of Lazio – otherwise, the students return home at seven or eight at night. Then there is the problem of canteens – in secondary schools there are not and in any case the creation of a service costs – if you spend the whole afternoon in class. Many principals, from Milan to Rome to Turin, still have space problems: with small classrooms they cannot accommodate more than half a class a day, how do you get to the 75 percent of the attending students mentioned in the Dpcm? Fixing the single-seater desks a bit more, which have all finally arrived, doesn’t seem like a viable solution. The idea proposed in Piedmont to equip classrooms with new ventilation systems seems more like a good Christmas resolution than a goal for January 7.
December 15, 2020 (change December 16, 2020 | 08:52)
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