Covid, the turnaround of the governors in the school: in June they wanted to return without protection, today 100% at a distance

It seems like a century has passed since the Regions asked to return in class without a mask even for children ages six and up, without any staggered entry, without plexiglass. However, it was June. It’s only been four months and the governors have changed course. Campania, Puglia, Sicily, Piedmont me Umbria have decided to adopt the 100% distance learning for high school. Not only, Vincenzo De Luca He has also chosen to leave kindergarten, elementary and middle school children at home, while Michele EmilianoWithout even consulting the regional office of the school, she decided to switch to online lessons also throughout the first cycle.

Many Regions, given the scarcity of data from infections at school (3.8% of all new outbreaks in which the transmission context was reported) confirmed by the Higher Institute of Health and the Ministry of Education, Lucia azzolina, want to send children and adolescents home without thinking about the consequences of this choice: parents forced to quit their jobs and increase in School dropout.

A radical change compared to the previous months. On June 13, the Conference of the Regions sent Azzolina a document requesting a soft return for students. The act on the minister’s table excluded the possibility of staggered entrances and exits so as not to create chaos in cities and transport. Another proposal came from the Regions: entrances and exits at the same time but one meter apart.

Another hotly debated topic throughout the summer: More expensive. In that document, the Governors requested that in addition to do not wear personal protective equipment in kindergarten, they should not be used even for pupils aged six and over.

For the Regions they should have been placed only in the common areas and to the sound of the bell at the beginning and end of the day. Nothing more. Elena Donazzan, Regional Councilor for Education in Veneto (reconfirmed), on August 20 said: “Keeping the mask on during class is torture. We are firmly against it and we will do everything possible so that this is not a rule for our boys ”.

Today the cards on the table have changed. President De Luca and Emiliano have chosen to close schools immediately and the other colleagues have opted for full distance learning for secondary schools and now they would like to move to greater restrictions without listening to the calls of the Minister of Education who remains undaunted. do not close the classrooms so as not to leave the children in the street.

Still on Saturday, while a Chigi Palace an arm wrestling shortly after the schools closed, the Viale Trastevere tenant wrote on her Facebook profile: “Keeping schools open means helping weaker groups of the population. It means counteract rising inequalities, an effect unfortunately already underway due to the pandemic. It means protecting students, but also many women, many mothers, who risk paying a heavy price. In the midst of so many unknowns, there is a certainty: the closure of schools does not produce the same effects for everyone. The social gap widens, the bill is paid by the weakest. There are also territories where the closure of schools is synonymous with early school leaving ”.

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