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Posted by Lucrezia Cataldi – I would like to start from a simple consideration (my legal training requires it).
There are two constitutional norms that have been recalled, reiterated and sometimes shouted on several occasions during the current year, art. 32 Right to health and arts. 33-34 Right to education.
Well, given that the seriousness of the situation we are experiencing is on the agenda, since February Italy has been in the midst of a pandemic with catastrophic consequences from the point of view of the physical and mental health of citizens, as well as economic and social, with more than a million subjects involved, with thousands and thousands of deaths from north to south, with a particular defeat of the country’s historical memory, and not only, given that the victims of Covid were innumerable even among people between 40 and 60 years!
And again, that everything we are experiencing has considerably distorted the order of things, its relevance in social life, and human and family relationships completely trampled on, just think of the dead left to themselves, unable to receive a final farewell. of loved ones and buried and / or cremated without even a flower or a blessing.
But all this, obviously, was not and is not enough, to make it clear to those responsible that the right to education and therefore to attend school becomes secondary to that of life, mental health, dignity and freedom! family!
It is true that the school is open to everyone, and the right to education is guaranteed by our constitution, but before school there is more!
In such exceptional and extraordinary situations, priorities change and only by adapting to contingent situations can we safeguard what is most important.
Although the Italian Government, in the person of the Minister of Education, in the summer months worked to secure schools and ensure that students and teachers started again in September according to the rules, the facts and figures to date show that was enough! Although in the classrooms the students committed themselves with the help of the teachers and all the school staff to respect the rules, it was not enough, because you go to school by public transport, because at peak times thousands of people go simultaneously to work and then the same people return at night to their families, with children, grandchildren, parents and grandparents. Not to mention that the vast majority of children, those who continued to attend school, experience the virus asymptomatically, thus transmitting the infection to families without anyone noticing.
I wonder, therefore, if it had not been more prudent, in anticipation of a second wave of the virus, to wait and reflect, and to lean towards more cautious decisions to avoid subsequent more serious restrictions, with catastrophic consequences both from the point of view of the saturated hospital structures. , both from an economic point of view and due to the closure of many commercial activities!
Someone might say: why not close other businesses instead of school? Of course, discos and nightclubs in the first place shouldn’t have been open during the summer in fact, but restaurants and bars that weren’t could have continued to operate in accordance with anti-covid rules after being forced to. make various adjustments.
I think we are experiencing a situation similar to a state of war, in which everything becomes extraordinary and as extraordinary the teaching activities should have been completely suspended and many other more natural situations have been prevented, such as meetings with family and friends. .
In this regard, I want to focus on the Decree of the Prime Minister of November 3, concerning the provisions regarding the expanded DID from 75% to 100% in secondary schools, as well as the explanatory ministerial note of November 5, precisely in reference to the provision to guarantee teaching. in presence in some cases.
The previous note says: In terms of school inclusion for all contexts where activities are carried out in DDI, the aforementioned DPCM, recalling the fundamental principle of guaranteeing face-to-face attendance for students with disabilities, clearly marks the need for this type of activities In-person classes promote an “effective” and not just formal school inclusion, aimed at “maintaining an educational relationship that achieves effective school inclusion.” The school administrators, together with the teachers of the classes in question and the support teachers, together with the families, will favor the attendance of the student with disabilities, in accordance with the IEP, as part of the participation also, when possible , of a group of students in the reference class, which may vary in composition or remain unchanged, so as to constantly ensure the interpersonal relationship essential for the development of effective and profitable inclusion, in the interest of the students.
Recalling the guiding principle of the “right to education guaranteed to all students of the Italian school”, the note intervenes on a question, which has been addressed on several occasions in recent days, namely, how to guarantee conditions of real inclusion in this particularly critical and highly complex situation. When do you switch from in-person activities to remote activities? In reality, the Ministry had already provided indications in the 2020-2021 School Plan, providing, in the event of a possible suspension of teaching activities, attendance in presence, as long as in conditions of real inclusion, both of students with disabilities and of students. and students who are children of health personnel or categories of workers, whose services are essential for the population (Ministerial Decree 39/2020); principle contained in Ministerial Decree 89/2020 “.
One wonders, therefore, if this really happens or if in most cases we find teachers (curricular and support and, sometimes, also the educator) in empty classrooms with only one student present and all the others . remote classroom connected online.
I therefore deduce, observing reality, that the raison d’être of the provision in question, most of the time, is ignored and that the much desired right of inclusion is not guaranteed.
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