Free chairs at school, but nobody wants them. Teachers: “Moving is not convenient”

Rome, September 8, 2020 – There will be teachers in our children’s classrooms? As the countdown looms over the start of the school, the contours of a record-breaking chair escape are becoming clearer.

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The quick call ended on a flop. In Calabria just 16 questions, 50 in Tuscany, 30 in Piedmont, to get an idea. “The call to try to find teachers willing to move to Lombardy was an absolute fiasco,” blurts out the mayor of Milan. Beppe Sala. The Guild provides 200 thousand alternates. The fact is that 60,000 teachers are missing today. The failure of the rapid call is explained by two reasons: the stability of the place is not guaranteed and the fear of moving from South to North has weighed, with the uncertainty of a new wave. COVID-19.

The result is that there are places available but there are no teachers. Meanwhile, the minister had to set limits to prevent the bleeding of the frail, teachers over 55 years old. “Age is not enough, you have to have certain pathologies” to ask for abstention from teaching in the classroom. But the Anief invites you to undergo medical examinations immediately. Therefore, showers of appeals are announced. But the problems are many more. We take remedial courses. They must be paid, say the unions, with an ancillary fee. “However, in September the teachers are on duty – says Lamberto Montanari, vice president of the National Association of Directors – It is a national emergency, we must allow children who have studied remotely to catch up. How do you ask for extra money? “.

To make matters worse, on September 26 all the school unions called a strike. “Intolerable,” Montanari thunders. Now then the knot of the personal call of Covid opens, the teachers who will be hired to divide the classrooms but who should stay at home if remote teaching is restarted. Will they meet or will it be a failure like the online call?