School, reopening January 11

Published on: 01/04/2021 11:07 PM

The reopening of middle and high schools postponed to January 11 with the forecast of resumption of classroom teaching for 50% of students. This is the mediation reached in the Council of Ministers, where the Democratic Party was in favor of returning to classes after January 15 and the M5S and IV firmly against it, ready to confirm the date of 7. In the end, the drop point when setting reopening. for Monday the 11. Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, who would have invited the Pd, M5S and IV to find a meeting point, in a CDM where the subject was discussed animatedly, to find a date that would make everyone coincide, overcoming the impasse .

The text of the new Covid decree with the measures, approved during the night, “intervenes in the organization of teaching activities in secondary institutions, with the provision of the resumption of activity in presence, for 50 percent of the students, starting next January 11 “.

During the CDM, which ended after almost three hours, there was a lively discussion about the reopening: the head of delegation of the Democratic Party, Dario Franceschini, supported by the most ‘rigorist’ area of ​​the government, was in fact in favor of postponing the reopening of middle and high schools, moving the turn in the banks “no earlier than January 15”. But to vigorously oppose a postponement was the M5S with the minister of the Colegio Lucía Azzolina, stuck in the return line in the classrooms since January 7. The IV minister also harshly criticized, speaking of “unacceptable chaos” in the school chapter, “a sign of a failure in the reopening process and a return to school.”

For Azzolina, in fact, “the infections are not attributable to the school, that is not the source of the outbreaks – the minister would have said, some present told Adnkronos – our children have paid too much, just ask them for sacrifices.” Meanwhile, the discussion continues, the dl on the measures to take after the Epiphany has not yet been approved.

During the meeting, as Adnkronos learned, the Minister of Transport Paola De Micheli explained that she had developed an organizational model disconnected from the purely health dimension, because it is impossible – the reasoning – to know how the virus spreads in buses and buses. . But his words would have provoked the ire of the 5 Stars and in particular of the head of delegation Alfonso Bonafede, encouraging the debate in a fiery CDM.