Coronavirus: Transportation plan for back to school is ready. Low adherence to screening



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Not remodeling of entrances and exits, but improvement of the local public transport service. So Valle d’Aosta will bring January 7 to class 75% of secondary school students, for more than a month in distance education. The plan is ready and was sent to the Ministry yesterday morning.

I am 86 more bus trips planned in the three different basins (upper, middle and lower valley) plus one Minuet doubled for the train that arrives in Aosta at 7.38 am and leaves the regional capital at 1.40 pm. Services that in part add to the 70 races added in recent weeks, to bring second and third grade students back to class.

The President of the Region requested through Civil ProtectionNational Association of Alps support in some areas susceptible to possible assembly, namely the Aosta bus station, piazza Manzetti and near the Verrès school.

The municipality of Aosta will instead involve the Local police due to the possible traffic jams that could arise, again in the Piazza Manzetti area, due to the greater number of buses in circulation.

“Unfortunately, only 56.4% of the families responded to the questionnaire sent and consequently – says the Regional Minister of Transport Chiara Minelli – we had to combine the data that emerged with the work carried out in September, crossing the different information. This should guarantee us a good margin of safety, but we will monitor the first days of school to see if it will be necessary to intervene in critical issues that may arise ”.

The agreement reached yesterday between the Government and the regions provides for the possibility of starting distance education for 50% of the students. On the other hand, the 50% reduction in public transport capacity, foreseen by the Dpcm of November 3, is confirmed.

“We will get 75% of the students to class immediately,” says Superintendent of Studies Marina Fey. Each educational institution will establish the modality autonomously, as it has done in recent months ”.

The schools of two educational institutions, the Itpr Corrado Gex and the Manzetti of Aosta, have decided for the moment to use integrated distance learning for the boys’ evening returns.

Low adherence to the screening campaign

In addition to the transportation plan, it is also ready to test teachers and students, facing their return. The number of adhesions is low: 3522 in total, of which 1,750 high school students, equal to 31.4%, and 1772 of the school personnel (teachers of all levels, educators, support operators, assistants and administrators), equal to 46.9%.

Given the numbers, the screening campaign will focus on the days from December 31 to January 5. 2,747 people will be tested at the Pepinière Drive-In in Aosta, another 775 in the Bec Renon room in Donnas.

Previous selection campaigns on teachers had obtained 65% adhesions.

“For the teachers, the fact of having recently carried out a screening could have influenced, while for the students chosen from the families – continues the Superintendent – we have met the needs of the territory, identifying two locations for the swabs.

On January 5 coordination table, in which the CPEL, the school administrators, the competent councilors for transport and education and the local public transport companies, will meet again to define the final details, also in light of the new provisions that may come from Rome. .

“The school needs services. – Fey points out again – Transport was the main node, but now it will be necessary to understand, depending on the area in which we are, if the rest of the system holds. I am thinking, for example, of the fact that the institutes do not have a canteen service, it is unthinkable in the middle of winter that children can eat in a bank. If the premises are not open, it will be necessary to evaluate whether there is the possibility of them eating at school, but in this case, sanitation is planned for these spaces ”.

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