"In view of the start of the next school year, the priority objective is to create the conditions to ensure teaching in the presence at school, in classrooms, laboratories, canteens, gyms, service spaces, courtyards and in outdoor gardens, in any other school environment. It is necessary to be able to build (and reconstruct) the relational and social conditions that provide the vital substrate for the learning, growth and development of the new generations ". The head of the Ministry of Education Stefano Versari writes this in a circular to schools, adding that it is "ethically necessary to vaccinate" school staff.
"We are all aware - it is said in the circular - that the pandemic emergency is not over, that its evolution is changing and that for the school world it remains essential to understand, share and apply the technical indications for each individual territorial and school context. that progressively arrive from the health authorities ". In the document, the department head of the Ministry mentions some references to the latest health opinion of the CTS of 12 July last.
"With a view to 'doing well and safely' this Ministry - continues the circular - will soon issue the 'Document for planning didactic, educational and training activities in all institutions of the National Education System (School Plan 2021/2022) "as far as possible aimed at resuming in presence". The circular adds that "the changeability (typical of viral pandemics) constitutes an element of uncertainty. But this cannot allow - says Versari - wait-and-see or 'fear of making mistakes' prevail over the duty to act deliberately to organize the new school year.
The duty of 'good performance' cannot be held back by the expectation of an ever new circular, technical opinion, guiding indication that defines, clarifies, interprets more and more and better a reality in the making and by its nature changing and differentiated.
The regulatory tools and technical indications available allow the concrete ways of starting the new school year to continue to be organized in each school. "
The Ministry of Education has also sent a note to schools with reference to the start of the 2021 school year. / 22 with the indications of the Cts.