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I agree with what my colleague Chiara Celino says in her speech entitled “What teachers hear from you.”
I don’t feel guilty saying that I am afraid to go back to school. I hope that the most positive forecasts are correct. I look forward to you as a high school teacher who wants to see her students again, as a mother of a girl who attends high school, as a citizen aware of the importance of education, as a daughter who has decided not to take a day of vacation just to protect to the ninety-year-old mother.
When we talk about school, and I would invite everyone, VIPs and participants in the television contests included, to limit interventions, we should talk about teachings, content, essential skills to manage the future, not the need to open schools to allow parents to work , maybe in smart work. This makes the school, educates and families educate.
I am aware that school must be restarted after the period of emergency shutdown. I am equally aware of the difficulties of Minister Azzolina, who found herself governing an absolutely new situation at a time of extreme gravity and I am also aware that all the other countries in the world are experiencing the same situation as ours.
However, I too would have preferred more caution. For example, it would have been reasonable to contemplate distance education during the three-year period from high school through December or to establish one day a week of DAD for middle and high schools, in order to lighten transportation and the schools themselves. Such measures may not have received adequate political consensus.
As a State employee, I will fulfill my duty to the fullest, which I have never shirked in more than thirty years, and I will respect all the rules that have been indicated and which, in many cases, are far removed from the reality of our schools. . Doing, as always, the best I can. Because I know that my daughter’s fellow teachers will do the same, while those who behave differently will be only a minority.
A few years ago in the city where I live we experienced dramatic days due to an earthquake of a certain intensity that occurred in the morning. Great panic at school, the responsibility to protect children, the thoughts of their families. I remember well the intensity of those moments. At the bottom of my list of worries was my girl, then in elementary school. I was more than sure that in the hands of her teacher she would be as safe as in mine. She was not entirely wrong. The teacher, the same one who had taught them to read, write, count, had protected and reassured them and no child was afraid. I believe that few professions deserve protection and social prestige like this.
For this reason, no one who does not live in school speaks more about the duties of teachers, no one launches appeals, no one writes that without a desk colleague nothing will be the same again, no one makes comparisons with other categories of workers who have another role and others awards. even if it’s cheap, nobody makes parodies.
Talk less, much less, but without forgetting it when the pandemic ends.
Lucetta dodi
