Towards the reopening of schools on December 9

There is a circled date on the calendar: Wednesday, December 9. This could be the day high school students go back to school too. Face-to-face teaching will be one of the topics to be addressed tomorrow in the meeting between Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and the heads of delegation of the majority forces. At the same time, the Minister of Education Lucia Azzolina will meet with the mayors of the large metropolitan cities, such as Rome, Naples, Milan, Bari together with the coordinator of the Technical Scientific Committee Agostino Miozzo. In short, the first citizens of those territories most exposed to the risk of contagion will be at the table, especially by local public transport.

Therefore, we are thinking of a progressive reopening. Already yesterday, the prime minister of La7 stressed that the government’s objective is to reopen schools before Christmas in December. Government sources now explain that the merits of the question are being introduced to reopen the closed secondary schools throughout Italy, but also the second and third secondary schools on December 9, immediately after the Immaculate Conception. Obviously, much will depend on epidemiological data and the decisive ones will be expected on Friday. Above all, it would be M5S, with Minister Lucia Azzolina at the helm, and Iv to press for a quick return to the bench. While the Democratic Party remains very skeptical.

Although today in support of Minister Azzolina, who more than anyone else fought for the safety of students at school, once again scientists and psychologists came out into the field. The closure of schools, with the breaking of the habits of the youngest and with the prolonged use of distance education, are causing “inevitable problems and risks of a psychological nature” for students, underlines the president of the National Council of the Order. of Psychologists (Cnop), David Lazzari, in the meeting he had today with Minister Azzolina. At the center of the interview – a note informs – the need to strengthen the collaboration between the school world and Italian psychologists to ensure support to all operators in the sector and to students, especially with regard to the growing forms of discomfort that occur due to the ongoing health emergency.

And then again the president of the Higher Institute of Health Franco Locatelli offered help in this regard: “Even in the latest analyzes carried out, the school confirms its contribution in an absolutely marginal way to the SarsCov2 transmission curve. The potential to infect people over 10 years of age is the same as in adults, while those under 10 years of age are less but not absent ”.

That many members of the government are becoming convinced can also be seen in the words of the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza: “Schools are an absolute priority for the country and I believe that at this time we must commit ourselves, be consistent with the rules that we have set for ourselves. fulfill them. open. “This week is the decisive one.