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Close the schools? Not mentioned: if infections continue to grow in the country, it will be necessary to intervene in access to public transportation, limit children’s evening recreational activities, avoid parties. “. This is the answer that the Minister of Education Lucía Azzolina repeats to those who ask what will change for schools in the coming weeks: party colleagues, parliamentarians and directors, leaders of ministries as well as the many parents with whom she dialogues via Facebook. From his Azzolina he has the data of the last official monitoring carried out by his ministry: 0.02% of infections. Transmission in schools – confirmed the president of the Higher Institute of Health Silvio Brusaferro – is very limited ”. Too bad the numbers are a bit old because they stopped on September 26, when schools in the southern regions had reopened for a couple of days.
Contagions growing but without peaks
“But the data for the following week also follow a trend of constant growth without peaks,” the ministry said. They will be released next week – so while we know the results of the daily swabs live, there is a wait of at least ten days for schools to understand what happens with infections. Not only that, the data comes with an eyedropper and it will probably be like this throughout the year: after a tug of war with the Ministry of Health on who should do the follow-up, in the end it will be the directors and not the ASL who provide the Infection numbers in schools. The news comes live and describes the first limited outbreaks even in schools: ten infected in a school in Ferrara, 30 in the Liceo Avogadro in Rome, a school closed in Molfetta due to an outbreak. “Respect the rules even outside so that we can keep schools open,” Azzolina said yesterday in statements to students at an agricultural institute in Frosinone.
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Few rules and a lot of confusion
Concerns are also growing about the growing number of quarantined classrooms along with confusion over the enforcement of prevention rules. Starting with the use of masks that is not mandatory when students are seated at the desk but more and more teachers ask to use them. In Fiano Romano, Lazio, after the director decided to close the branch of the comprehensive institute with 150 members due to a case of Covid, the parents went to the carabinieri. In the scientist Vallisneri di Lucca, however, the rules of the race changed: “When there were the first cases in September, the class and also the teachers were quarantined, but lately – says Gustavo Micheletto, professor of philosophy – the teachers We have signed a self-declaration that we were in the chair, two meters from the boys, and they did not rub us: it is a procedure that has validated the ASL, it seems to me a dangerous trick. It would have been better to put ourselves in fiduciary isolation to do an education to distance for a few days.
Isolated teachers cannot teach
Easier said done. Mario Rusconi, director of the Association of Deans of Lazio, says: “The professors in fiduciary isolation are sick, as the law establishes: if I make them work, and many want to do it, I assume the responsibility of going against the law.” Guglielmo Caiazza, director of Tor Bella Monaca, in Rome, had to leave eight classes at home because a teacher tested positive for hyssop: «How long? The law says 14 days from the onset of symptoms, and since the ASL response generally comes a week later, the quarantine could last a week or so. The ASL has enabled a laboratory in the school gym to clean all the contacts of positive students and teachers, thus preventing them from queuing for hours at the drive in but I have a class that has been at home since September 22 because ASL cannot report the swabs, they are overworked ».
Schools and substitutes: Calvary for students
But apart from risks and infections, the situation remains complicated in many schools across the country: substitutes arrive with a dropper. At the Ettore Conti in Milan and at the Keplero in Rome there are still three hours of lessons a day: at the Conti in the former there is only one teacher, 42 out of a hundred have reached the entire institute. In Milan, where the director of the school office is former Minister Bussetti, they found 6,500 substitutes out of 10,000. Not to mention the new single-seater desks: almost a month before classes begin, there are still hundreds of thousands of students without a table, forced to alternate with groups at school or sit in chairs without desks. The extraordinary commissioner Domenico Arcuri, although he does not provide data, confirms that “by the end of the month we will complete this really complicated operation”.
Unknown competition between Covid and appeals
There is a lot of apprehension about the extraordinary temporary worker contest (32 thousand places for 64 thousand questions) that is scheduled for October 22: candidates will take a single written test divided into small groups and for several days until November 16. The calendar for now is confirmed and security measures have been given the green light, provided that the increase in infections does not advise postponing. And, since a complementary trial is not foreseen, specialized law firms are sharpening their weapons for possible appeals from candidates who will not be able to appear for presenting symptoms compatible with the virus or even in fiduciary isolation or quarantine.
October 8, 2020 (change October 8, 2020 | 22:04)
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