Back to class today for high school kids in Tuscany (just over 166 thousand), Abruzzo (56.500) e Valle d’Aosta. The boys will return 50% in attendance. All the other Regions have chosen to postpone the return to the desks of high school students on dates ranging from January 18 to February 1. Protests and flash mobs are scheduled for today. Children, students and teachers, from North to South, ask to be able to go back to school.
“It is difficult for students to understand why they do not return to school, I understand their frustration: school is a constitutional right if they had taken me away from school I would probably not be here”. So the Minister of Education Lucia Azzolina to Radio Rai 1. “In the yellow band regions everything is open except high school and this will create deep scars, the children need to vent their sociability. I am very worried, today the dad can no longer work, there is a sociality blackout, the children are angry, disoriented and are worried about the explosion of early school leaving “.
“Zero risk does not exist, but it does not exist in any area – he added -. Within schools the risk is very low, as evidenced by Italian and European studies. The school is organized very well. I have done all that. what I could do, I ask everyone to treat school not differently than how productive activities are treated “, concluded Minister Azzolina.
“For my part, there is no controversy with the Regions. But we have to say what the facts are: we wanted to reopen the schools on December 9th, someone told us no, but the production activities started. On December 23rd an agreement was signed unanimously with the Regions who guaranteed that 50% of the high schools would return. An enormous work has started in the tables with the prefects and many more buses have been planned. At the beginning of January, many regional presidents said that they were even ready to bring 75% of the children back into the classroom. There are regions that have worked well like Tuscany, we at the ministry have monitored everything, we have done information; the work done by the school managers has been commendable. It is difficult for the children. students understand why it does not reopen today: they are right, I understand their frustrations, school is a constitutional right if they had taken away my school I would probably not be here “.
“The minister is working” in view of maturity. “We asked the students to make us some proposals: last year they presented us with reasonable proposals; we will make a decision shortly, the boys due to the absolute uncertainty about the dates that slip like Penelope’s canvas, they need to be certain that the ministry must give “.
“I understand the kids: the right to education is essential, I would be angry too – says the owner of the Ministry of Education -. I have a duty to tell them that the government has done everything it had to do for the return to school. In May 2020 the doctors wrote to me to ask to leave the school closed and so it was, today I receive letters from many doctors asking me to open the schools: they see the difficulties of their children. Last night I received a letter from a anesthetist”.
The minister also spoke on the extraordinary competition which “will resume, 75% of the tests have been carried out, the commissioners will be able to start correcting the tests already carried out, as soon as possible we will finish the tests of that competition, there are 4 days left to finish. the ordinary competition “.
The Minister of Health also spoke on the question of returning to class on Sunday evening Roberto Speranza. “We will discuss it tomorrow (today ed) with the regions, but it seems complicated to see the high schools closed and the ski lifts open. It will be one of the themes, and then again in Parliament”.
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