“Matteo Salvini with his lies will not prevent us from reopening the schools in September. It continues to shoot fake news in flurry, creating chaos in families and in the school world. ” So education minister Lucia Azzolina defends herself on Facebook from the attacks of the leader of the League Matteo Salvini.
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“The statements he attributes to me on the benches I have never said – continues the minister -. It is a quotation mark that was invented because it has no arguments.
Here is how things stand on single banks:
1 – The single benches necessary for the spacing required by the guidelines of the Ministry of Health’s CTS do not necessarily have to be with “wheels”. Nobody ever said that. However, remember that some of these benches are used in the most innovative schools in Italy. The desks then have different characteristics in relation to the age of the students.
They are furnishings that will remain in schools and that will allow students to work in a group and to have forms of teaching innovation one day.
2 – Nobody said that the stalls will cost € 300. I challenge anyone to find my declaration in which I say that we will buy € 300 benches. Yet I find quoted sentences in newspapers and on the net that attribute this statement to me. There is an ongoing European tender that serves to cut costs. Furthermore, as mentioned, there are several types of bench.
3 – The benches are not the only solution we have proposed to reopen in presence and security. The new furnishings are just one of the many elements that we have put in place.
We have invested in the staff of school staff, we have invested in school construction and the search for new spaces, we also invest in school furnishings.
I gave the news today of the government’s commitment to allocate another 300 million euros. With these we reach about 3 billion only for September and 6 billion of resources made available to the school since the beginning of the year.
No more fake news. Salvini exploits the fears of the Italians without ever making a proposal“, conclude.
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