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School, positives increase, 'micro bubbles' are thought of

2021-09-18T08:40:31.658Z


But the epidemiologists against it. Protests return to the streets (ANSA)


From north to south the cases of positive students increase and consequently the number of classes that go to distance learning is growing, sometimes also due to a lack of attention and responsibility on the part of some parents who, as happened in Turin, have brought their two children at school, violating the quarantine obligation and consequently causing, a few days from the start, the interruption of face-to-face lessons for many students.

At the moment there

are about a hundred classes in dad in Italy

"but I believe they are destined to increase", says the president of Anp Roma, Mario Rusconi.



    Precisely to reduce quarantines and distance learning there are those who think of

'micro bubbles' for school children on the German model

, tracing what already happens on airplanes in cases where positivity is discovered, or

limiting isolation to very close contacts

of those affected by the virus but experts and epidemiologists are very perplexed: it is

too dangerous

, they say.

Meanwhile, the

Codacons

judges the number of classes that ended up in quarantine a few days after the school's restart is excessive, and points the finger at the government's choice to delegate to parents

the measurement of

the students'

temperature

. "It is essential that the schools are responsible for measuring the temperature of the students", says the president of the Consumers' Association, Carlo Rienzi, who is preparing a formal warning to the Ministry of Education and the regional school offices, so that they can take action to change the access procedure to institutions in order to avoid quarantine for thousands of students.



    The Priority School Committee, for its part, will be

mobilized again on 20 September throughout Italy

"because the Government has not proposed any concrete solution to the structural deficiencies that have plagued the school for decades, but which have been and will be the main culprits in preventing adequate management of the health emergency". The school year, the supporters of the Committee point out, did not start well: provisional hours, incomplete school time, vacant chairs, insufficient ATA.



    And teachers, principals and students are also taking to the streets: it takes place in Puglia, where the school unions protested in front of the building of the Bari Prefecture against the double entry shifts for second grade secondary schools, which will come into force from September 20 to avoid crowds on means of transport.

   And while

in Imperia a janitor entered the school without a green pass for the third consecutive time

, she stamped and was again dismissed and sanctioned with a 400 euro fine, claiming her right to work, despite not having green certification, in kindergartens and in the Turin municipal nurseries it will be possible to access the 'lockers' area for changing clothes for children without a Green pass: this is provided for by an internal organizational measure issued by the Municipality's Educational Services Department.



    And on the

organization of transport

linked to the resumption of lessons, the Minister of Infrastructure Enrico Giovannini assures: "there are specific but not systemic criticalities, especially in the big cities a significant step forward has been made compared to last year".



    Finally,

the OECD

confirmed that

in Italy little is spent on education

, noting however that in the years of Covid, in particular in relation to the financial years 2020 and 2021, Italy recorded a budget increase in favor of primary education and lower secondary school. 

Source: ansa

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