shorter lessons. Only 45-50 minutes – Corriere.it

Not only supports entry and exit with lessons until 4 in the afternoon and, in turn, on Saturdays. The 2021 baccalaureate will also have a reduced schedule: no longer the sixty minute fees, but 45-50. To point out that there are also abbreviated lessons in the prefecture documents signed province by province in recent days to allow the reopening of schools as of Thursday 7, is the note from the Ministry of the Interior that takes stock of how schools will be organized from next Thursday. . According to Minister Lamorgese, everything is ready: from 7 o’clock we start with half the students and from 3 o’clock – but it will most likely be from Monday 18 – with 75% of the students in class. The additional public transport will already have to be operational all, Lamorgese explains, from the 7th to carry out a stress test: another 300 million have been allocated to pay for the additional trips. As for the shifts, with tickets up to 10, which displeased the directors and also the teachers, they are a solution that has not been adopted in all regions: Emilia Romagna, Veneto, Molise, Basilicata and Sardinia will keep tickets for everyone . at 8. In the other regions, to meet the time requirements, schools can reduce the duration of lessons so as not to exceed 16 as dismissal time, compensating for lost time in school with remote activities. Ministers Lamorgese, De Micheli and Azzolina were satisfied with the teamwork, who spoke of a “teamwork to be proud of”.

The contagion data

But apart from the stomach ache in the school world due to the application of the new regulations, the unknown about next week’s reopening continues to be health. Another spike in infections could bring some regions back into the red zone and force them to maintain school restrictions. The Higher Institute of Health published this Thursday the first in-depth report on the situation of infections in children and young people between 3 and 19 years of age to provide a scientific basis for the next government decisions. The conclusions of the 40 pages, however, are not definitive: “In the current state of knowledge, schools seem relatively safe environments”, reads the ISS report, but, on the other hand, also due to the lack of data ” The impact of the closure and reopening of schools on the dynamics of the epidemic is not yet clear.