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Florence, January 10, 2021 – The Tuscany it’s the only one among the largest regions whose students everyone will go back to class Monday, January 11. Even the higher, although at 50%: in fact, half of the students will continue in distance education and classes will alternate between dad and presence in the classroom. So time x turns on for Tuscan students.
Even kindergartens, primary and secondary schools, after the summer holidays and mini-reference decided by the government from January 7 to 11Come ring the first bell. 166,000 students will return to school in high school alone. With alternate schedule, since only half will be able to stay in class. The secondary schools were organized independently.
There are those who will do a weekly alternation (in the first week, third fourth and fifth classes, in the second week the first and second), instead there are who will alternate morning and afternoon. So much so that in some large Florentine institutes some classes enter at 2 in the afternoon and leave at 7 in the afternoon, a totally unusual time, in the afternoon, to minimize the chaos of returning home.
But how does Tuscany get back to school? Because he is the only one from large regions ring the bell for almost everyone? Moving so many students safely into the era of covid is no small feat. Work at the regional and local level has been intense in recent weeks. And it is distributed in several directions.
Increase in school buses
329 new buses are added to the ordinary ones 2,949 vehicles in service in Tuscany (+ 11.2%) deployed to improve public transportation in view of back to school in attendance (50%) for high school students. According to the Region in a statement, the additional means will be used to guarantee additional trips. ‘bis’ and sometimes ‘ter’, to avoid, especially in rush hours, the agglomeration of means of transport. Insert is also provided 17 additional bus trips to support the regional rail service, on the routes Empoli-Siena, Florence-Borgo San Lorenzo, Lucca-Aulla, Chiusi-Siena. To finance these races, the Tuscan regional council approved an allocation of 4 million euros in its last session.
Delegates at bus stops and outside of schools
Also in the field butlers: regulate pedestrian traffic of students both at bus stops and outside of schools. These are specially trained personnel. Just a Florence More than 200 operators will participate a day, among which are municipal police, Metrocittà provincial police, private commissioners, facilitators of transport companies, volunteers and law enforcement agencies. But the same will happen in all other provinces, in close coordination between local authorities, volunteers and law enforcement agencies.
Immediate swabs for suspected cases
Cases of suspected covid between students and teachers will be dealt with immediately by the ASL and the swab will be as quickly as possible. It is another of the projects that concern the return to school, “ScuolaSiCura”. It is the way to intervene immediately against possible outbreaks and contain the contagion. In addition, specific screening activities have been initiated in some institutions, with swabs for all students in order to have a mapping of possible cases.
Monitoring of movements and intervention in critical issues
To start the project ‘I accompany you’, sort usersThe Region has allocated 500 thousand euros, particularly the students, on the careers and avoiding the concentrations in the bus stops. “Everything possible will be deployed – said Commissioner Stefano Baccelli – at the level of resources, commitment, organization. We wanted to guarantee safety both inside the means of transport, where responsibility and competence was ours, and outside, at stops or in nearby areas, where it would not have been the responsibility of the Region. Only the evidence of the facts can prove whether our work has been sufficient. For this we have decided to activate a very tight tracking system, in collaboration with Provinces, transport companies and Prefectures, in order to immediately identify critical problems, should they arise, and intervene immediately, the next day, to remedy them.
“In teaching, presence is essential”
“We have data that in terms of contagion allow us to see the situation with optimism – says the president of Tuscany Eugenio Giani -. I think we cannot leave school behind. In teaching, presence is essential: no videoconference, even for adults, guarantees concentration and motivation like presence in the classroom ”.
“The priority school as productive activities”
«In the unjustified chaos about the reopening of the school, the Tuscany is the example to follow. Strengthening of means of transport, law enforcement agencies and personnel in front of the schools and at stops to avoid meetings, quick buffers. Everything to reopen schools until Monday. After the healthcare professional, vaccinate School staff. School is a priority, as are productive activities. Thus, in a note the president of the Senate Education and Culture Commission, Riccardo nencini, on the reopening of schools.
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