Directors explain that there are no adequate conditions to reopen classes in the European country, one of the most affected by covid-19.
A thousand directors of schools in Italy, of about 8,000 in service, have requested this Thursday that the Government postpone face-to-face classes until January 24 and do not start next Monday, as the Executive of Mario Draghi has decided.
These educational workers have sent a letter to Draghi and the Minister of Education, Patrizio Bianchi, in which they bet on remote classes for at least two weeks and explain that it is essential to increase the vaccination campaign and reduce infections before allowing them to return to the classroom after the Christmas holidays, he published the newspaper “Corriere della Sera”.
In his opinion, “there are no security conditions to open classes”, because the need to respect social distancing “is a measure on paper”, but the real state of the classrooms and “the concentration of students in the campus ”complicate its fulfillment.
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The Italian government on Wednesday approved new rules on quarantines to allow the return to classrooms. In kindergartens and nursery schools the ten-day quarantine will be Mandatory for all children if there is a positive in class, a much tougher measure than that foreseen for other age groups because Italy is only vaccinating those over five years of age.
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In primary schools they will remain the face-to-face classes with the obligation that students take a coronavirus test if there is a positive, but with two or more cases, everyone will have to quarantine for ten days.
And in secondary schools and institutes, only face-to-face classes with a positive will be maintained, although with the requirement that students take a test and use the FFP2 mask.
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With two cases, only those who have been vaccinated, those who have had the disease in the last four months or those who have received the booster dose. If there are three positives, all students will continue remotely.
“The objective is return to face-to-face classes and safely”, Said today the Minister of Education, Bianchi, in declarations to the Italian public television. (I)
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