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The mask in the classroom is one of the most discussed topics in the last hours in the school environment. What will you have to do when you return to classes from September 14?
According to the latest indications from the Scientific Technical Committee, the mask can be lowered sitting on the desk if there is a distance of one meter from the mouth rhymes of one student to those of another. A measure highly desired by the Minister of Education, Lucía Azzolina (to overcome the innumerable problems of space in Italian schools) and endorsed, not without some perplexity by the experts (the virologist Andrea Crisanti, for example, disagrees).
But be careful. Because the mask doesn’t completely disappear from the classroom. As reported by the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, during the information delivered to the Senate, the mask should be used in dynamic moments in the classroom and in common areas
“You go to school with a mask. But then we divide two moments: the dynamic moments where there are concrete risks for our students to have closer contacts less than a meter away, and instead the static moments, that is, in which the student is standing, I think for example In a lesson, listen to the teacher, you have a distance of at least one meter from the other students. At that static moment, the mask that is mandatory at other times can be lowered naturally “, said the minister.
This measure “It can be reviewed in the case of particularly delicate epidemiological situations, but it will only be the health authorities who dispose and evaluate it correctly.”
But that is not all. Because the Scientific Technical Committee said yes to surgical masks, which can also be defined as “disposable”, but said no to community masks, that is, those that can be customized and manufactured in fabric.
The decision, not yet official, but almost final unless there are dramatic changes at the last minute, Made environmentalists turn their noses that speak of a huge waste with more than 40 million tons of masks to dispose of each day (11 million masks a day self-produced by the government will be delivered to the school).
However, it seems that the Ministry of the Environment wants to pressure above that of the Instruction to give the green light at least to those certified as reusable (that is, washable).
The Scientific Technical Committee, for its part, has given the green light to transparent ones, that is, the ‘lip reading mask’, a device that allows teachers to read lips and facilitates understanding and dialogue even in the case of deaf students.
Here too, however, confusion reigns and clear directions are lacking in less than 10 business days from the start of the school year.
What will happen from September 14?
In primary school, to facilitate learning and relational development, the mask can be removed in a static condition respecting the distance of at least one meter and the absence of situations that foresee the possibility of aerosolization (for example, singing). .
In secondary school, even considering a transmissibility similar to that of adults, the mask can be removed in static condition respecting the distance of at least one meter, the absence of situations that foresee the possibility of aerosolization (for example, singing) and in an epidemiological situation of low viral circulation defined by the health authority.
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