School: ministry, reopens from the first, lessons from 14

(ANSA) - ROME, AUGUST 23 - The Ministry of Education assures: the school will reopen from September 1st for the recovery of learning, lessons will start from 14th. It will be possible, on the part of local authorities, to resort to private schools to find additional spaces "the opposite has never been envisaged. Nor could it be", viale Trastevere specifies. The answer comes a few hours after the words of Lega leader Matteo Salvini: "There are no certainties on how and when the schools will reopen, yet the inadequate minister Azzolina and the whole government have ignored the Catholic schools that even offered their spaces to facilitate the start of the September lessons. The principals denounce the lack of 10,000 classrooms, but due to an absurd ideological prejudice, the proposal of public schools is ignored and our children and teachers are condemned to chaos. First Azzolina resigns , the better it will be ". Also arguing is Mariastella Gelmini, group leader of FI in the Chamber. "A little more than 20 days after the start of the new school year and in full organizational chaos on the restart, the ministry announces that recourse to private schools is possible: if perhaps this indication of common sense had been given three months ago today we would not find ourselves in the catastrophic situation in which we are ". Meanwhile, the minister for the family Elena Bonetti proposes - her colleague Azzolina also did - paid leave and the right to smart working for parents in the event of illness or quarantine of a child. "In recent months, important work has been done for the recovery that involved all the ministries concerned, the Regions, the local authorities, the regional school offices, the schools, with all the staff and school managers, the social partners, the Associations of students, parents ", observes Minister Azzolina, thereby showing a desire to recover unity and cohesion after the controversies of the last few hours and in view of the difficult restart that coincides with the unfortunate increase in infections. "It is hard to find arguments that can justify the heavy attacks directed by various parties on the unions", the latter write today in a joint note. And if from Monday the school staff will be able to carry out serological tests in all regions - starting so far they have only been Lazio and Tuscany - the first clouds can be seen on the horizon: some family doctors in fact are afraid to practice them in their medical offices because , they argue, there are not enough security measures to carry them out. "Ours - explain Pina Onotri, general secretary of the SMI, the Italian doctors' union and which represents about 8 thousand doctors including hospital, family and medical guards and Ludovico Abbaticchio who is the president - is a motivated no: we would not want to repeat that which happened in hospitals or in RSAs. Not all medical practices are structured in such a way that they can be sanitized and where there are positives, the doctor should be in quarantine and the study would consequently remain paralyzed ". In addition, the doctors of the SMI raise the question of the costs of waste disposal and sanitization that they should carry out in their private practices. Biagio Papotto, national secretary of CISL Medici, however, thinks differently: "Pulling back is a shame, an even more sign of responsibility must be given when the second wave of Covid is coming". The governor of Campania, Vincenzo De Luca, intervenes on another issue that has raised perplexity in public opinion, that of controlling the temperature at home and makes it known that he is verifying, with the Crisis Unit and with the managers of the Public Education, to provide for measurement at school. For the resumption of school, the ministry recalls it has allocated - with a measure never taken before - additional resources that will allow to give over 425 thousand less well-off students free books and digital devices that will be provided directly by schools. Finally, tomorrow, Monday 24 August, a help desk for institutions will start: a service entirely dedicated to recovery to which schools can turn to in case of doubts and questions. (HANDLE).