“I’m leaving, I don’t want to be an accessory to this delusion”

Rossella Ortolani, an elementary school teacher, wrote a letter outlining issues related to anti-contagion rules for children.

Spoke about the Covid Room, where children are taken if they have mild feverish states, specifying that, if they do not find a family member on the phone, someone could call 118 directly.

“We understood that then many of those general controls are triggered that if we are well, perhaps, they only close the class of the child who is positive for the virus virus, otherwise they close the entire school, if there are several.”

At his school “Children come and go, at different times, from three entrances even far apart, so that those with more children run from one side to the other to carry them and take them back.”

A surreal situation

They will be spaced out and wear masks, just like their parents when they pick them up from school.

“So – comments Rossella Ortolani – Teachers of first grade children will never recognize their students’ relatives and will involuntarily violate all safety regulations related to the return of children to their families ”.

And what will they do in class? “They cannot touch, exchange the marker, stack books, get up to play with friends, do work groups, help each other, hug the teacher.”

A surreal situation where “Everything to the millimeter is planned to keep them on the counter very well, because as soon as they get up and approach someone … the teacher screams.”

Teacher who, according to Ortolani, thanks to one “Specific refresher course” it was instilled in him Which must enforce all the rules, under penalty of being responsible for contagion ”.

The problems not only concern the interior of the institutions, but also the external areas, such as courtyards.

“Some teachers – the teacher writes – Forgetting about teaching (which no longer interests anyone), they asked themselves: “But if the ball falls to the ground while they are playing poisoned ball and another child catches it, what do you do: should you disinfect?”

Teacher: “I teach my students not to be afraid”

The letter continues with a feeling almost of resignation: “They managed to turn off all the neurons of the Italians, disconnect all the synapses, create darkness in the electrical circuits of our brain. Won!”

The only hope, we understand, is natural disobedience. That at least the children “They yell, shout, sing, jump on benches, hug, kiss, play catch, lego, puzzles, swap snacks, play soccer … without realizing it … they live …”

Then the appeal to parents: “If you have the heart to send them to school in these conditions at least teach them what you should have done: teach them to disobey … to live freely again.”

Rosella Ortolani writes that she wants to drop everything and go on vacation. “I’m leaving. Not because I’m afraid of the virus virus, not because I’m afraid of the consequences of a spacing error, not because I’m afraid of children, no.”

It is the only way you have to object. “I do not want to be an accessory to this delusion, I teach my students not to be afraid during the five years of school ”. Photo: YouTube