“Back to class? The children are right.” Directors: distance learning doesn’t work

Students are right to call for a return to classroom teaching, “at least in non-red regions,” but saving the school from “thirty years of inefficiency” takes a snapshot and a vision. He thinks yes Mario rusconi, director in Rome who runs theLazio Presidents Association.

The director’s protests against Dad begin to be counted: what do you think?

“Distance education was very useful at the time of the outbreak of the epidemic, although it immediately revealed elements of fallacy, starting with the lack of connections. We regret, however, that we have turned to dad now, in this second wave, because the school It is made to pay for responsibilities that are not theirs: there was a need to decongest public transport and the simplest way was chosen, to let high school students and the last two middle classes stay at home. The subway was robbed at certain times became known. Students are paying for responsibilities that are not theirs but those of those who in recent years have not managed public transport services well. The same reasoning for the impossibility of enforcing personal distancing at school: we have school buildings old and half of them are not up to par and this has also been denounced on several occasions “.

So were the boys right to make their voices heard?

“I agree that they feel the need, which is not only didactic but also social, to return to class, there is also an emotional area that boys and girls rightly demand. But there is no vision of the school and this is not the students’ task: it is not that when I return to the classroom with a traditional lesson time I resolve situations, teachers must be trained to teach with digital teaching, based on documentary instrumentation, but also being in the classroom. bonum: once the virus is over, even digital technologies can really enter the classroom. But for this to happen, a very strong organizational step is needed, a scaffolding is needed that only a government can provide ”.

In recent months there are those who have praised Dad a lot …

“There is research at any level that highlights the enormous damage caused by the absence from school in the presence of the youngest but also of secondary school children. Being in the classroom means having a good sociability, being able to talk to the teacher, say I don’t understand, raise your hand, ask, go deeper. I myself do classes at universities online but it is not the same, it is exhausting, connections are often lost, the boys are absolutely right. The problem, as Manzoni said, is that between the iron pots the clay pot breaks and the clay pot in this case is the school in the presence ”.

Why?

“Because the vast majority of the Regions have never paid much attention to the transportation problem. To this is added what we have lost over the years: the absurdity of eliminating thousands of territorial references at the health level or other reform, let’s call it that, done twenty-five years ago since the school doctor, a fundamental figure, was abolished. The psycho-pedagogical equipment in the schools was also eliminated, which cost almost nothing and which at this time would have been very supportive. The truth is that the Covid is a great comb that with its teeth is braking and removing all the knots of thirty years of ineffectiveness of almost all the governments on the Italian school ”.