Age Toscana –
They haven’t been telling us right about the return in September and for a long time now, this is the point. But the closer the fateful date of the reopening of schools approaches, the more evident are the very serious organizational delays that will make it impossible for millions of students to return to the classroom. Anyone know something about school buses, which should take their runs from more than half an hour to just fifteen minutes, and the shifts that necessarily follow? Has anything been organized? And those eleven million masks a day promised by the extraordinary commissioner Arcuri have ever been ordered?
To understand what the Ministry of Education is planning, it has always been a good idea to look at the provisions and their concrete effects rather than press releases, funding rather than proclamations. On closer inspection, the reopening of the school in September was managed through late and smoky provisions, which never go into detail: ideal for not letting school administrators spend the even fat resources that have been made available in recent months and that they will be compulsorily withdrawn by the Ministry on 30 September.
What about the August 3 kindergarten provisions, which include 1-2 dedicated school contributors per section, when the request for additional staff expired in July? And while the principals are struggling with signage tapes and tape measure, the competition of 3,000,000 desks has undergone so many changes that it is probably challenged by those who have been excluded: in essence, nothing will be spent for the Covid emergency -19, because at a high level it is already known that there is no going back to school.
Since when is it known? the astonished and bewildered parent will ask. Certainly from May 28, 2020, when the Scientific Technical Committee established that there could be no more than 10 students per class. The pantomime of push and pull that followed, with ever more permissive concessions (one meter between mouth and mouth; mask waiting to be able to guarantee the spacing; release for minibuses on routes up to 15 minutes) only served to calm the minds, to silence those poorly provided parents, who insist on asking everyone to go back to school, without a mask and without distancing.
Already now deputy ministers and members of the CTS are sending out worried messages and foreshadowing the risk of a failure to reopen: a few more days and the closure of schools will be a fact.
And the parents? The parents would have liked to know this sooner, to have time to organize themselves, to obtain from the schools the optimal conditions for quality distance learning (good connection for everyone, notebook for those who do not have one, targeted teaching, part of the students in the classroom and webcam effective for all the others), so as not to lose the thread of that training and that education which are fundamental building blocks for building the citizens of tomorrow. Meanwhile, it is better to wait and buy the apron: before using it, it could become too small …
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