Test, ventilation, masks: this is how you return to the classroom

Salivary tests, open windows or ventilation systems, masks, platform to verify the Green pass: these are the

in the year that sees the boys return in attendance. The latest news is the green certificate required not only to all those who work in the school but also to the parents of the pupils, a news that has sparked the anger and protest of many families. As for salivary tests, the plan plans to monitor at least 55,000 pupils every 15 days. A sample, therefore, of about 110 thousand students per month, representative of the reference school population which amounts to a total of about 4 million 200 thousand pupils. To be involved, on a voluntary basis, students of primary and secondary classes of first grade, ie elementary and middle school. In Lazio an audience of 30 thousand students has been identified.

For air exchange, the Technical Scientific Committee has established that it must be ensured by opening the windows but

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"also because it is one thing to open the windows in winter in Bolzano, it is quite another to do it in Palermo", observed the Minister of Education Patrizio Bianchi. One of the problems raised by school leaders these days concerns quarantines in case there is a positive in the classroom. Last year they were 10 days which then became 14 in order to have the result of the swab after isolation, now the law provides that for the vaccinated it goes down to 7 days but the school leaders warn of the difficulties that will arise in classes in where one part is vaccinated, another is not, with different quarantine periods. Among the measures on which more work has been done to ensure distancing are local transport: Minister Giovannini assured that funding has been tripled.We will see from Monday how it goes, especially in the big cities where bus rides have been intensified: in Rome, for example, there are 3500 more. 

The vaccinated school staff currently exceeds 93%, in five regions reaches 100%: Abruzzo, Campania, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Lazio and Tuscany

. The masks, at least for now, will be worn and can only be removed in the canteen and in the gym; they will be provided by schools like last year. Minister Bianchi's proposal and contained in the decree of 6 August to remove them if all vaccinated has been postponed for now; however, we need some guidelines on which we are thinking. "About 2 billion have been allocated to schools, municipalities and provinces precisely to address and improve teaching, for interventions for individual protection, for small maintenance and for the rationalization and creation of spaces - recalls today 'Lazio councilor Claudio Di Berardino,which coordinates the School Commission of the Conference of the Regions - also with regard to the complex transport system, meetings were held at all the prefectures with the identification of solutions capable of reconciling student services with school organization ".