Click on Zoom’s Leave Meeting button. So Mary, Riccardo’s mother, imagines the last day of school of her son, who went out of class on an anonymous Thursday in March, never to return to his five-year-old classmates. The fateful moment of June is approaching when every year, between the excitement for the incipient summer and the emotion for the end of childhood, almost half a million children build images of their first past, an album of memories made of the faces of friends who perhaps will never meet again in life, or maybe yes, when you grow up, like in those films where suddenly one appears in front of you and says: Hey, do you remember me? We went to school together. That moment, this year, won’t be there. Or, at most we will be on Zoom. Leave Meeting. ID 83814751325. Throughout your life, Riccardo, with these two words you will remember that you have finished your primary school. It is no coincidence that it is called the school cycle. Why a small Era in a person’s story.
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Simona, mother of a student from Milan
Simona, also a mother of a fifth grade pupil, but in Milan, where the premature farewell to school even earlier, he says that now that jump from one cycle to another, to which so much of the last four months usually devote, will be a leap in the dark. We went home that Friday in February to prepare the suitcase for Nature School, departure scheduled for Monday, first experience, longed for and awaited by the children, worthy closure of a wonderful five-year period, and we have never returned. And thus began the period in which we parents – writes Anna – have been daily educators, therapists, doctors, psychologists, teachers and professors, animators, mechanics, plumbers, creative craftsmen, cooks, tailors, domestic workers, coaches, hairdressers … The family, the largest Italian company, has never closed. Another parent, Michele, recounts the curse that chased his son: he lost the first day of elementary school five years ago because he ran into a teachers’ strike against good school, he lost the last day this year because he ran into the virus. Children – he says disconsolate – always come last.
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