“Check the calendar to make up for lost time” – Corriere.it

The future government will have to reshape the school calendar of the current year, to make up for the many lost days. What the president in charge Mario Draghi said to the parliamentary groups gathered so far.

The pandemic has weighed, Draghi’s reasoning: which does not mean that no school has been made, but that students have certainly missed a lot of teaching time, and therefore it will be necessary in the first place make up for lost months, and then organize in advance so that in September the school will restart without hesitation. Indeed, things are in order, explained the deputy Alessandro Fusacchia (member of the Center for Democracy-Italians in Europe) at the end of the interview with Draghi.

There is reasoning to be done about How to organize this recovery of lost months. Draghi shared a first reasoning about structural things, which have to do with the School calendar to prepare in time for September of next year.. And there is work to be done in the last few months to get back to school as soon as possible, adds Fusacchia.

The knot of open chairs

The former number one of the ECB has not explained how he intends to act but he understood that it is possible to extend school lessons beyond the established deadlines to recover what was lost between closings, distance education, psychological and physical distance from the school. If it is a moderate extension, it can also be considered. It is clear that we cannot think of students and teachers staying in school all summer – said the president of the National Association of Principals Antonello Giannelli -. However, for now it is premature to talk about it. We will make an assessment when the details of the hypothesis are clear. The idea of extend the calendar until the end of June It was first launched two months ago by the Minister of Education, Lucía Azzolina, who sent it back to the individual regions that are responsible for defining the school calendar. The unions reacted by raising their doubts.

Draghi did not go into details of the proposals about the school, but according to parliamentary sources at the end of the talks, he recalled that at the beginning of the school year there were thousands of vacant chairs, a situation to which a solution must be found as soon as possible. added the former ECB number one. This year the chairs discovered at the beginning of the year were at least 50,000, including lack of qualified professors, delays in updating rankings, exempt fragile professors, delays in competitions.

It was only in the autumn that the extraordinary competition began – stopped and then restarted in January – to stabilize temporary workers with more than 36 months of service, while the ordinary competitions were banned and blocked by the epidemic.