"Today we celebrate the World Day for the Rights of Children and Adolescents, to always remind us that protecting and protecting the little ones is a duty, as well as a collective responsibility. The school is the place par excellence where they find the answers to their why. School is the place where children and young people can feel safe. For them, for the school we love so much and for our whole country, we continue to work so that this delicate parenthesis that has put us to the test will be closed soon. and adolescents have the right to live, discover and grow together, having fun, and they must return to do so soon. Let their light always shine. For us it is a gift. For them a right ".
The Minister of Education, Lucia Azzolina, writes it on fb.
"Despite the distances and even a bit of concern - underlines the minister - our little ones and our adolescents have not given up, their infinite curiosity and their desire to learn have not stopped even in the face of the pandemic. As always, resilient and genuine have managed to teach us much more than we could do ".
"School is the place where children and young people can feel safe, welcomed, understood and stimulated, thanks to the incessant work of teachers, managers and all ATA staff to whom my heartfelt thanks go", concludes Azzolina.
Umbria extends distance learning for secondary schools
- Distance learning for state and equal secondary schools has been extended until 29 November.
This is foreseen by an order signed by the President of the Region, Donatella Tesei, also in consideration of the opinion expressed by the Regional Technical Scientific Committee.
The provision is effective from next Monday, November 23, until November 29, and extends the validity of the measures already in place.
On the street against dad, the protest returns to Turin
- About thirty students gathered this morning in front of the Gioberti high school, in the center of Turin, for the 'School for future' event.
In via Sant'Ottavio it is the second Friday that they meet, while there are those like Maia, 16, who have been carrying out the protest every day for a month now.
Despite the circular of the head teacher Miriam Pescatore, which prohibits the dad in places other than their own home, even today the boys have chosen to follow remote teaching outside the institute.
"Today we are many and it makes me happy - comments Maia -. Before it was just me and then people joined. I hope this helps the State to understand how much we care about going back to school. It is not our whim, we believe are really serious problems related to distance learning. We also had the support of Minister Azzolina, so we hope something will be done to get us back to class as soon as possible in safety ".
Outside the nearby Italo Calvino middle school, Dad Anita and Lisa follow.
They too were scolded with a letter from the head teacher, Lorenza Patriarca.
"We have replied with a private letter - reveals Anita's mother - at the moment there is no need to give other answers".
Video of young students from Bari: 'The virus will not stop us'
(by Vincenzo Chiumarulo) - The future of the world is in the hands of children but it is they, in this pandemic, who pay the highest price, because they risk losing fundamental rights, including the right to study, all together, in a school.
For this reason, on the occasion of the World Day of Children's and Adolescent Rights, the director of the comprehensive institute 'Japigia 1-Verga' in Bari, Patrizia Rossini, has decided to have teachers and students make a video in which to tell this new condition of life.
A condition in which the loss of 'normality' risks undermining the serenity of the little ones.
The video begins with the image of an empty classroom: on the desks there are no colors and drawings, only a bottle of hand sanitizer.
The teachers, then, ask themselves "where have the children gone? Their world has been turned upside down, and no one has noticed it", they point out.
The image then moves to the school yard but even here there is no trace of the young pupils who risk feeling "isolated" and "marginalized".