School to start, here are the real back-to-class numbers

ROME – 5.6 million students return to class, says the Ministry of Education. From twelve regions of Italy and a province with autonomous status (Trento). State school students and peers. The data, however, are not real and are used to count a school calendar dictated by the minister. Lucia azzolina and, above all, it serves to hide the quantity and quality of institutional delays in school that, as he said today Republic, have their roots in the spring elections and go beyond the risk of a pandemic.

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At school six months later. But one in three students still stays home

by CORRADO ZUNINO

Let’s see. The ministry writes, in fact, that 5.6 million Italian students from “most regions” will enter class early in the morning, 5.6 million of the more than 8.3 million students in the country. There are 7,507,484 students enrolled in state schools and another 860,000 in peer schools. There is, it must be said, a decrease in students in the state: last year there were 52,000 more. On the other hand, there are 268,671 students who need support, 9,000 more than in 2019-2020, when the load of uncovered chairs has grown. Therefore, the Mi offers a summary table that certifies the presence of students in the individual regions.

There are twelve regions that are leaving this morning, against the seven that have been postponed at 16 (Friuli), at 22 (Sardinia), at 24 (the rest of the South except the Sicily). But even in territories that begin on the canonical date, there are defections. In Sicily, here, only secondary schools open and not all: for primary and secondary schools we have to wait until Thursday 24, after the national referendum and some regional elections. In Lazio, as was told to Republic the school councilor Claudio Di Berardino, 30 percent of institutions are not ready: postpone. And then there Liguria: can be found throughout the city of spice, where infections are on the rise, in the vicinity Lerici and in various locations in Levante and Ponente: Bogliasco, Alassio, Albenga, Bordighera, Soldano, Vallecrosia, Bordighera, Ospedaletti, San Biagio della Cima.

Here, of the 5.6 million declared holders out of a total of 8.3 million Italian students, at least 700,000 young people must be eliminated: almost half a million in Sicily, 200,000 in Lazio and another 40,000 in Liguria. To these numbers we must add the students of Val d’Aosta and of Province of Trento, not included in the Mi tables because most of them are enrolled in equal and regional schools. Even the 860,000 declared by the ministerial offices for peer institutions, in line with last year’s figures, could actually be lower, and not a little, given the declarations of closures “due to crisis” made by Catholic associations in these months. Here, the number of students at the beginning, in presence and at a distance, this morning is less than 5 million and it is not equal to 5.6 million.

The Network of Secondary Students manifests itself in front of the institutes of forty cities throughout the country. The coordinator Federico Allegretti declared: “Minister Azzolina does not know what she is doing, the little that the ministry has put in is not enough for a safe reopening.”