Mattarella: 'Schools will reopen only when in safety'

"Dear girls, dear boys, I turn to you in a circumstance that no one would have imagined. The health emergency we are experiencing has upset our lives in just a few weeks. In addition to the anguish over the bereavements, we have to deal with changing rules drastically so many habits. Even your life has suddenly changed. Schools across the country have been closed and will remain so until the danger has been eliminated; and it will not be possible to reopen them safely. " This was stated by President Sergio Mattarella in a video message.

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"We are facing an exceptional event that affects the lives of more than eight million Italian girls and boys. And hundreds of millions of students around the world. Something incredible, never happened before, in the history of education. A dramatic event , which we can define as epochal. Closed schools are a wound for everyone. But, above all, for you, boys; for your teachers; for all those who, day by day, participate in the life of these communities ", says Mattarella, for "# maestri", the new Rai Cultura program.