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The reopening of schools is approaching, which must also be reviewed by high school students in attendance, at least 50%, but as of January 7, doubts related to the contagion curve continue to grow.
Faced with this situation of uncertainty, Professor Daniele Novara from CPP, Psychopedagogical Center for education and conflict management, launches an appeal to teachers. “In these months of reopening the schools, I received several emails from teachers who confessed their difficulty. – declares Novara – Meanwhile the news of the vaccine arrives. Waiting for it to be administered to the school operators asap, meanwhile, what do you do? Schools have a special responsibility. It is in the school community where the conditions for a real recovery are created where the new generations lay the foundations to assume their responsibilities. If this does not happen, we are all in real danger.
And the signs are not entirely reassuring. Children suffer the closure at home, the suspension of social, sports, recreational activities, isolation with a lot of anger, tension, with an internal pain that they cannot express but that we technicians know well in addition to having been widely recorded from various investigations. We are not talking about teenagers forced to stay in motherhood without the possibility of living this important stage of life that would lead them to separate from their parents. Instead, they cannot escape parental control and protection.
“This living against nature – Novara continues – does not have the same psychological and psycho-evolutionary weight that it has for adults. Important phases of growth are blocked, the processes of development, learning, acquisition of skills and security in oneself and in the world are interrupted. We need a benevolent look towards these students, towards these children and young people forced into a really problematic and uncertain situation for their future life. Hence this letter. I ask each teacher to have this benevolent look, a look not of compassion but of attention to their deep needs, respecting the numerous and rigid anti-Covid rules. “
In his appeal letter, Professor Novara also indicates what these needs are, starting from the need for relationships. “You cannot go to school while you are confined to a desk – says Novara – sitting rigidly in a chair or without any verbal or communicative contact with your classmates. There is no school if you cannot work together, it is a discriminatory excess to think that security should be based on keeping students not only at the appropriate distance but also in a systematic isolation that for full-time primary school children would mean 8 hours. . Already the need, established after the reopening of the school, of masks in Primary seems to be an excessive norm. Let us not aggravate it any more with isolation procedures that mortify and depress the motivation of the students “.
Another identified need is to be able to follow one’s own times. “Learning – says the teacher – has never before required adequate times or careers to pursue ghostly content and objectives. It is better to come out alive and well mentally and psychologically than to commit but with the program finished. “
As the last indispensable need, Novara identifies that of autonomy “Doing it alone, living school as a unique personal experience, today extremely threatened by parental hyper-presence in the long wave of spring confinement where all the families were”. transformed into permanent extracurricular activities “.
By concluding his appeal, Professor Novara wishes to clarify indisputable evidence, namely that pupils go to school, not parents. “This bet – concludes Novara – must remain essential, on pain of creating a strong confusion in personal responsibility, in the perception of the capacities of students with respect to school assignments and commitments.
I hope that you teachers return to school with this awareness, with the pride of those who, despite the enormous difficulties, know that they really represent the future of the country ”.
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