The Minister of Education, Lucia Azzolina, takes it out on the unions (“They sabotage the restart”), but in reality there is a widespread sense of fear among teachers for the risks of contagion connected to face-to-face lessons. Social media, if not official statements, are full of this sentiment. Just have access to one of the Facebook groups that bring together teachers and scroll through the posts, almost all with name and surname, written by teachers from all over Italy – from Palermo to Milan, from Brescia to Taranto, from Bologna to Naples and Florence – in which they fears become palpable. The question comes …
The Minister of Education, Lucia Azzolina, takes it out on i labor unions (“They sabotage the restart”), but in reality there is a widespread sense of fear for the teachers among the teachers risks of contagion connected to face-to-face lessons. Social media, if not official statements, are full of this sentiment. Just have access to one of the Facebook groups that bring together teachers and scroll through the posts, almost all with name and surname, written by teachers from all over Italy – from Palermo to Milan, from Brescia to Taranto, from Bologna to Naples and Florence – in which they fears become palpable.
The question is asked directly in a post: “Are you for or against the opening of the school year in September?”. The comments are, in a few hours, almost 650. And the majority is for the no. The refrain is “like this, against”, because, explains Marta, “neither we nor our students have to lose out” and because, Valeria attacks, “they did nothing to get back safely”. “Reopen the school? No! – observes in another group Fb Beatrice – Too many things that cannot be done, too much confusion”. So what to do? According to Roberta “it should reopen after the votes”, therefore after 20-21 September. There are also those in favor like Alessia who says “yes, but with halved classes”. Or like Valentina: “For or against? Pro pro pro, the school must go on”.
Then there is a specific chapter on prevention measures. “The safety of the distance meter is very questionable – Chiara observes -, I would take the Plexiglas screen like pharmacists and tobacconists, why not us?”. There are those who reply that “the school is not only where you ask questions, it is the place where you learn to be in contact: how do you do it hidden behind the Plexiglas?”. But for many the solution is one: “Distance and windows open also in January”.
The lack of certainty about the sample of students who will be tested contributes to fears. Also Maddalena Gissi, secretary of the Cisl school admits too much confusion on this aspect. The serological test for school workers “risks being useless” if a significant sample of children, the most affected by Covid in recent weeks, is missing. And then there are the over 55 teachers who are defined as “fragile workers”. Many posts and there is no shortage of those who sound the alarm: “I warn you that you will find it very difficult to breathe and teach because of the filtering” of mask recommended in these cases, the Ffp2 or the Ffp3.
In all this, but belongs to the parents chapter, there is no shortage of Covid deniers, skeptical parents opposed to ministerial guidelines to reopen the school. In this sense, requests have reached the school administrators, he says Antonello Giannelli dell’National association of principals, “improperly qualified warnings from senders” but they are “unsubstantiated acts which, on the basis of inconsistent pseudo-juridical and pseudo-health arguments, aim to intimidate colleagues so as not to regularly resume school activities”.
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