"Dear guys, it's not a wasted year. Don't cry on yourself! Stop playing the victims! Those who complain have always achieved only one result: complaining. Be more capable than those who should and can't decide for you. Be smart. Be smart. ! Do not believe those who say that this is a lost year, that it is worthless. Prove the opposite: to know how to treasure from little. And among other things, you would discover nothing new: 'per aspera ad astra' (through the roughness sky high) are not today's words "
.
Nicoletta Tancredi, a young teacher of Latin and Greek in a high school in Campania and mother of three girls,
sends a message of encouragement to her students,
forced for many months into distance learning or integrated digital teaching.
The Did with different organizational modalities foresees alternation between presence and distance, classes in the classroom only on a few days, while the Dad sees all the students at home and the professors connected to do online lessons.
Young people discuss what is best between Did or Dad, taking into account that the situation is objectively exceptional, that as long as the anti-covid vaccination has not reached the entire population, the risk of contagion will still remain.
It is clear that attending your classmates and taking part in lessons live is preferable.
Meanwhile, on 11 January more than 3.6 million students remain in Dad, equal to 43% of the total of about 8.5 million students of the Italian school.
Only in three regions secondary schools open - Valle d'Aosta, Tuscany and Abruzzo
- but the students do not want to resign themselves to being out and continue the pressure to return to class, in presence.
Priority to school '- the committee that groups together children, parents and' no-dad 'teachers - has returned to mobilize and ask for vaccines immediately for the teachers and health screening for the entire school community.
Especially high school children, the most penalized by the pandemic, are fed up with postponements and broken promises.
For this reason, at least in the major cities, the Student Network has organized assemblies and alternative lessons outside schools for Monday 11 January (in Rome from the Cavour high school to the Albertelli).
"Bounce back to the sender the anxiety of the Dpcm and the ordinances from last minute, with all the energy of your age. Respond with optimism. Challenge yourself to be able to learn in any circumstance. Season your thoughts with enthusiasm.
Dream
about it.
more beautiful than prospects and nourish your dream
: reality changes by imagining it ", writes the teacher again.
"You find yourself being a
university student in high school.
You are alone, if your relatives are so intelligent that they do not want to replace you. There are no teachers walking around the desks, while you do a test in class, asking you questions without that you can turn off the microphone, or disappear behind the initial of your surname on the desk. It is time - is the professor's exhortation - to understand what your teachers have always told you and which could have seemed rhetorical: you don't study for a grade, but for yourself. You are forced to self-discipline, to the commitment decided by you. And you must be even better than in class, because the teachers are not always able to motivate you from a distance. Not always the attitudes of your body , the so-called non-verbal language, is visible in a video call. You are alone, but with the motivational support of your relatives, if they realize that, in this and only in this, they must assist the teachers, says the teacher.
soressa to her pupils ".
"And then it is so easy to 'cheat' that there is not even the whim to do it! - the teacher reasons - If you can, nothing extraordinary. Just trivial, as well as cowardly, simulating connection difficulties. Let's be ready in every case: to go back to class, with a very high sense of responsibility and respect for anti-Covid regulations, or to stay at home, however tired and unmotivated you may be. You have all the reasons in the world: you lack social life, smiles, pats on the back, hugs. But this is what you have to live. Grit your teeth! Feel, talk, do not abandon yourself! This is an opportunity to deal with who you really want to be in life. Concentrate on studying! What better opportunity? Set knowledge as an objective. And aim for that. Let's know how to adapt! And the professors, the less 'technological' ones, help them! Show them how many things you know and can do online. And you will have pulled from yours, in the your world, teachers: and when there
does it happen again? ".