(ANSA) - ROME, APRIL 24 - To reserve the greatest return presence to students who attend the initial and final classes of school cycles, also to better help them open the state exams: this is the indication that has arrived today from the Ministry of Education to schools in sight of the resumption of April 26, when in the yellow and orange area all the elementary and middle school children will be among the schools, while for the upper schools the presence will be at least 70% and up to 100%. In the red zone they will all be present up to the eighth grade, while the activities in the classroom will take place at least at 50%.
Numbers disputed by the Regions but also by local authorities. The presence at 70% "is not good, in some areas of some regions 60% would be better. The Government tells us that within the decree the possibility for the presidents of the Region to make a different ordinance that does not fall below the 50%.
We should find a solution in the next few hours ", announces the president of Anci and mayor of Bari, Antonio Decaro. Heavy criticism of the government also comes from school administrators.
"Only those who do not have the slightest knowledge of the complexity of the school organization can think of deciding the percentages of school attendance on Friday evening - if not Saturday evening - for Monday morning", thunders the president of the National Principals Association, Antonello Giannelli. Other criticisms come from the Flc Cgil. "The school is hostage to conflicts in the majority. On the resumption in the presence we are in front of an embarrassing ballet - says the secretary Francesco Sinopoli - in many secondary schools the presence of 70% is a choice incompatible with safety standards". The Minister of Education Patrizio Bianchi will try to extinguish the fire of controversy. "Everyone agrees on the need to bring back the high school kids - he says referring to the contrast with the Regions - there was a divergence on the percentage of 60% but the indication of the government leaves ample flexibility to reach 100% in the times and in the ways that the territories will recognize. "And he also praises the work done in recent months by school leaders.
"They had - he said at the XII congress of the Principals Association - an extraordinary role in keeping schools open: they have never been closed, all our staff have used this period to experiment, innovate, find meaning even in the moment when it seemed that everything had to be closed ". In the circular circulated to schools today, the ministry focuses on the psychological distress of children, forced to stay at home for too long, and the need to support and support them "having particular attention and understanding in this time that for many constitutes a real school reintegration". There is then a general concern for the recovery in September but in a document that HuffPost publishes exclusively - signed by the head of the cabinet of the commissioner for theemergency - there is talk of testing, contact tracing and support measures as a premise for the reopening of schools for the 2021/2022 school year. And even the university gradually returns to presence. "University life, which has never stopped in this emergency, is not only didactic, but is also and above all made up of exchanges, comparisons, relationships that we increasingly need. For this reason, the government's decision to foresee the gradual expansion in the presence of all activities, including lessons and exams, is really important ", says the minister of the University, Cristina Messa, satisfied. (HANDLE).which has never stopped in this emergency, is not only didactic, but is also made above all of exchanges, comparisons, relationships that we increasingly need. For this reason, the government's decision to foresee the gradual expansion in the presence of all the activities, including lessons and exams, is really important ", affirms the minister of the University, Cristina Messa, satisfied. (ANSA).which has never stopped in this emergency, is not only didactic, but is also made above all of exchanges, comparisons, relationships that we increasingly need. For this reason, the government's decision to foresee the gradual expansion in the presence of all the activities, including lessons and exams, is really important ", affirms the minister of the University, Cristina Messa, satisfied. (ANSA).