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ROME. “Four key measures to reduce risk in school environments: from basic hygiene rules, to distancing, through specific policies for children at risk with learning needs or special health conditions, as well as for teachers with health conditions making them vulnerable to more serious infections Promoting online teaching in particular situations WHO Regional Director for Europe Hans Kluge and Health Minister Roberto Speranza signed them in a joint statement at the end of the summit with 53 countries. In particular, he says, “it is realistic to prepare and plan the availability of online learning to integrate school learning in the next school year.” Necessary in case of temporary closures, or during episodic quarantine, or as integration for the school learning in circumstances where children alternate school attendance to meet distancing needs f physical in smaller classrooms ”.
The lessons begin
Wide uncertainty, children and families faced with unbridled doubts: the school looks at the beginning with total confusion. There are many issues to deal with, from empty chairs to masks, from emergency spaces to the arrival of desks, but without a doubt the question of opening before or after election day for county, municipal and referendum. on the parliamentary court set at 20-21.
On the subject they decided to deliberate on different opening dates from September 14 in Bolzano (September 7), Friuli (September 16), Sardinia (September 22) and Puglia (September 24).
But to complicate the front of those who seek alternatives to the national date, the decision of Calabria, which opens the classrooms on September 24 at the end of the electoral round, and Basilicata, Campania and Abruzzo would also like to follow this path. As if to say: the South detaches itself from the Center and the North. The idea is clear: protect yourself.
Parental support
The closure of institutions in case of contagion is the problem that weighs on families: “To help parents in the case of quarantines planned for classes with a positive Covid, we must reactivate the extraordinary tools already provided in the period of confinement , therefore, the extraordinary paid leave and the right to smart work ”, declared Elena Bonetti, Minister of Equal Opportunities and Family.
WHO: Safe Schools
“The reopening of schools in safety is a great global issue on which we work with the utmost attention, because the right to education and the right to health must go hand in hand”, reiterates the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza, recalling that “today at the request of Italy, a WHO meeting was held on the subject of back to school.”
The meeting was chaired by Hans Kluge, director of the World Health Organization: “We must support our teachers as we navigate together into the unknown,” he said. «Once again, Italy is in the front row to develop useful strategies to combat the coronavirus. Thanks to Minister Roberto Speranza, today 53 countries are facing the WHO about the reopening of schools in safety. Quresta is our priority.
