In class with a mask from 6 years up? Despite the partial backtrack made in the evening, yesterday morning’s statements by the CTS coordinator Agostino Miozzo on the fact that they should be worn for as long as you stay in class, unless questioned, have sparked much controversy. «It would be like asking the players not to run while they are on the pitch. But in this way the championship could never restart. The fact is that the school, unlike football, allowed itself to be commissioner: instead of being advised by the experts and then deciding on its own, it was reduced to taking orders from the medical-health system. At this point we might as well create a single Ministry of Education and Health ”. Daniele Novara, a militant pedagogist who, thanks to a series of successful books and his Parents School, has gained more and more credit among Italian families is a river in flood. “It’s like I’m pretending to go into a pediatric ward and tell the doctors what to do. It is a problem of method – he says -: the school should protect its borders from invasions of the field ». But what is the problem with the mask for the little ones? «The problem is that they experience it as an impediment in the relationship with their peers and with the teacher, which is instead essential in this phase of development, in which children learn mainly by comparing themselves with their peers under the expert guidance of an adult. The most striking case is that of the “remigini”, who last year abruptly ended the nursery cycle in March and this year they finally enter first grade but find themselves in a world of masks, instead of new faces ».
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The hospitalization of the school
Especially with children, health risk should not only be taken into consideration: the inconveniences that excessive school hospitalization can cause from the point of view of emotional and cognitive development should also be carefully weighed. In France, for example, the school mask is prescribed only from middle school upwards. Novara cites a study by Gaslini on the effects of lockdown on children aged 3 to 10: 70 percent accused behavioral problems. Who has regressed, who has become more aggressive, not to mention the increase in tics. «The most affected were the only children who lived in a small city apartment and could not even go down to the courtyard. But how can we help them recover what they have lost in those three months – which are worth three years to them – if we make them go back to schools transformed into infirmaries? ».
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Yes to thermometer and tampons, no to masks
It is true that in recent weeks there has been a significant increase in infections, but Novara points out that the inversion of the curve took place in the middle of summer, with schools closed, and that vice versa in the summer centers so far no problems have occurred. . «Reopening the discos and then having to close them: that was an absurdity. But continuing to portray children as potential infectors is making psychological terrorism that has no scientific basis. ” It is understandable that in this situation the parents are alarmed but according to Novara the task of politics is not to give voice to the anguish of families but to reassure them that all the necessary measures will be taken for a safe return to class in the awareness that zero risk does not exist. “For example, I would be in favor of measuring fever at school, which the ministry has ruled out, and also for tampons. But the masks, those not. In the guidelines for children published a few days ago there was a squeeze even for 0-6 years. They will not have to wear the mask but the educators do, and never mind if in this way they will become unrecognizable. Even teaching for small groups is wrong, because in this way the freedom of social selection is blessed. Children need to be able to choose their friends, only to change their minds later. Or not?”.
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