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As announced by the government, the reopening of secondary schools (high schools) will begin on January 7, which had been closed since the beginning of November due to the worsening of the coronavirus epidemic. The reopening for face-to-face classes, as we knew, will be partial and with different innovations and differences between regions and provinces: however, the rule of not exceeding 50 percent of face-to-face activity will be applied to all schools at least until the 15th. from January. . So it should hit 75 percent, but it’s unclear if this will happen on January 16 or later. However, part of the teaching will continue at a distance.
A note published on December 31 by the Interior Ministry summarized the rules decided for the reopening of schools by the prefects, who have been entrusted with planning the reopening and coordinating with schools and local authorities. throughout Italy.
In addition to face-to-face teaching reduced to 50 percent, schools will be able to differentiate between student entry and exit times to avoid creating crowds. In some schools, classes will be divided between those who enter at 8 in the morning and leave at 14 and those who enter at 10 in the morning and leave at 16; in others, the entrances will be staggered, but closer together. Some schools, where the schedule was more than five days, have chosen to organize the lessons also on Saturdays, alternating between the different classes, and in order to better manage the new schedules, the schools have had the possibility of reducing the duration of the lessons 45/50 minutes. Finally, 300 million euros were earmarked to finance the reinforcement of public transport systems to guarantee students the possibility of getting to school even with the decided schedule changes.
The regions in which it has been chosen to differentiate the entry times for all schools from January 7 are Abruzzo, Calabria, Lazio, Liguria, Lombardy and Puglia. In Campania and Friuli Venezia Giulia the entries will be differentiated, except in the provinces of Benevento and Gorizia where the entry will be in one shift; In Tuscany there will be ticket differentiation except in the province of Lucca, where rules had already been adopted to allow flexibility in entry times. The differences between provinces and regions are due to the different local conditions and problems that have been faced and have to do, for example, with the number of schools in the area and their size.
In the Marche, Piedmont, Sicily and Umbria schools will reopen from January 7 with a single entry shift, but entry and exit shifts will become when face-to-face teaching reaches 75 percent. In Basilicata, Emilia-Romagna, Molise, Sardinia and Veneto, the decision to stay with a single entry and exit shift has been confirmed: only the provinces of Cagliari will be an exception (where the double entry shift will remain only for schools secondary) and Treviso. In Valle d’Aosta, the reopening procedures have been decided by each school, and schools in the autonomous provinces of Trento and Bolzano will also have different rules.
There has been talk of high schools reopening since they closed on November 6 (after about two weeks of opening with 75 percent distance learning). For some time, many have argued that school attendance is not dangerous for the spread of the coronavirus. In mid-December, Agostino Miozzo, the coordinator of the Technical-Scientific Committee (CTS) that advises the government on issues related to the coronavirus epidemic, had said, for example, that according to the CTS there was no reason to suspend school lessons. higher.
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