• School: in September in the classroom without a mask, living space of two square meters per student
  • School, the Ministry of Education proposes September 14 for the reopening

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June 23, 2020 "The schools will reopen uniformly throughout the country. For the start of the new year we have already proposed the date of September 14". Minister of Education Lucia Azzolina wrote in a post on Facebook. "In these days the discussion with the Technical Scientific Committee of the Ministry of Health on the reopening of schools has continued. In the next few hours we will share the Guidelines with all the parties that participated in the work table and on Thursday we will close them together with Regions and Bodies local ", he concludes.





But meanwhile the alarm of the principals arrives: in at least 40% of the classrooms it is practically impossible to maintain a distance of one meter between the desks. "What do we do in these cases? This is the main question to which the guidelines should answer," says Antonello Giannelli, who leads the national principals association. As for the date of resumption of lessons, the Minister of Education Lucia Azzolina proposed September 14 and it is a date that satisfies most of the governors, even if someone remains perplexed. "The regions - explains Cristina Grieco, who coordinates the regional education councilors - will ask for as little inconvenience as possible in schools, where there will be elections. It would be important to find other seats for the polling stations, also for the future". A proposal, this one, which saw the sharing of numerous political representatives from the secretary of the Democratic Party Nicola Zingaretti and the deputy minister of Education Anna Ascani. As for the guidelines for the restart in September - the ministry will discuss it with the unions in a meeting that was convened for the day after tomorrow, Wednesday 24 June - the hypotheses go in the direction of banks spaced at least one meter apart - but the Regions propose an area equal to 1.8 square meters per pupil, to avoid subjective criteria which then risk creating problems for school managers -, staggered entrances and exits, divided groups, groups and the use of gyms and classrooms. There is also the idea that, before returning to school in September, all school staff - teachers, ATAs and managers - will have to undergo a health screening to check their health. "We look forward to knowing the guidelines to finally define the contents of the protocol on security measures - says Maddalena Gissi, who runs the CISL School - we will check in the coming days what the changes made by the Scientific Technical Committee are; the measures for the distancing are important as the anti-contagion rules. Scientists must guarantee well-being in schools and should not be influenced by the limited resources made available to create less crowded classes ". The other theme that continues to arise is that of the staff. "On September 1st the school will need about 200,000 alternates, both for common places and for support. There will be 38,000 vacant chairs and 39,000 retirements. The tenured teachers serve immediately, in September, en on between two or more years, "warns Pino Turi, secretary of the Uil School.