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The fear of Covid-19 has the first repercussions in a school in Altamura. As of tomorrow, Monday, September 28, the “Nervi Galilei” Technical Technological Institute (ITT), which has been open for a week, will suspend face-to-face classes and move on to distance education. Even the evening courses will be at a distance while recovery activities are postponed.
The decision was made by director Vitantonio Petronella “out of precaution” and “pending results”. And these results are related to the epidemiological surveillance activity of the notorious coronavirus that causes Covid-19.
At the institute there are currently no cases of positivity either in the staff or among the students. However, some young people are considered to be “close contacts” of positive people and therefore a swab is necessary. Also, it is assumed that they are already in fiduciary quarantine.
For reasons of prudence, to avoid possible risks in the school community, the principal has chosen a different organizational method. No longer the lessons between desks but “until a date to be assigned” is passed to distance learning, already experienced during the lockdown period and already planned for this school year. In fact, for the upper secondary cycle, distance education is allowed by ministerial protocols and by the guidelines of the technical-scientific committee, alternating with face-to-face learning.
The school suspends face-to-face teaching but does not close. The secretarial offices are open in the morning. «I felt – says Petronella – that this is the right choice. Waiting for certain news, hoping that everything turns out well, this modality allows you to be more serene and continue your schooling ».
Apart from this story, the beginning of the school year started regularly. All institutions, of all types and levels, have been organized by staggering the entry and exit times – to have less crowded entries and exits than usual – and respecting the planned distance measures from the classrooms.
The school bus service has begun to accompany children from the suburbs and the so-called “scattered houses”.
In addition, the Municipality, again as a preventive measure, also intervened in urban public transport and resolved to improve the service of the school lines with three additional one-way trips a day.
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