School, ministry note: “For the children of doctors and nurses the lesson remains in the presence”

ROME – The latest request from the Ministry of Education to school administrators, made through a questionnaire – the ministerial questionnaire, since this summer, has entered the daily tasks of principals – is the following: how many children of health workers are there in your institute and to whom is face-to-face teaching guaranteed?

Here, following the indications of the Prime Minister’s Decree of last November 3, its implementation note, the children of doctors and nurses, as well as pharmacists, must be able to attend face-to-face lessons even in closed schools. In limited groups. These students have parents with schedules that are not reconciled with those of distance education, especially in a phase like this in which a special commitment is requested from health professionals: “Your children must be guaranteed the right to study “explains the petition. of the ministry.

School, the appeal of the rectors: “Go back to class but we must guarantee transportation, location of infections and substitutes”

by Ilaria Venturi

November 18, 2020

Today the presence in secondary schools (closed, at least, until next December 3) and in first and second grade classes (closed, these, in the four red regions) is guaranteed to students with disabilities, to the who have special educational needs and for laboratory activities (technical and professional institutes). Even the children of health workers will now have access to lessons in the classroom.

“If you are a doctor, you cannot do a smart job,” says Antonello Giannelli, president of the National Association of Directors, “in the red areas, in Campania, in Puglia, distance education is required for eleven and twelve year olds , the provision wants to ensure that certain sectors of the population have guaranteed the right to universal education. “