Azzolina; "Within a few days all the teachers in class". Unions: competition stop, contagion risk

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September 30, 2020 "In a few days all teachers, even the additional Covid staff, will be in the chair". The Minister of Education Lucia Azzolina said this in question time to the Chamber, stressing that thanks to the measures taken this year - including the new rankings and the announcement of competitions - the orderly start of the school year is being allowed ". 

Regarding the extraordinary competition, the minister said that "it will take place in absolute safety thanks to the territorial distribution and the timing of the tests, there will be no gathering or concentration of candidates beyond what someone says in an instrumental way". They will be "serious, selective competitions. We need a competitive examination that selects who deserves to teach; families ask for trained teachers," said the Minister of Education Lucia Azzolina in question timealla Chamber.

For the extraordinary competition, for which 64,000 applications were submitted, more than 20,000 workstations will be set up for an average of at least 10 candidates per classroom, to ensure distancing. A specific protocol will be issued in the coming days. There will be two shifts a day of rehearsals, "there will be no closed schools or lost lesson hours. There will be no gatherings or concentrations of candidates". The computerized written test is distinguished by class of competition and type of place. The extraordinary competition is only the first selective procedure. A few months later the ordinary competition for childhood and primary and the ordinary first and second degree competition will be held. "The commitment is to reduce the precariousness by guaranteeing didactic continuity we are guaranteeing our word", said the Minister of Education.

In the next few months, immediately after the conclusion of the tests of the extraordinary competition, the ordinary competition for childhood and primary and the ordinary competition for the secondary of I and II degree will also be held, said the minister of education Azzolina. 

A letter signed by the five general secretaries of the school unions was sent today to the parliamentary groups of the Chamber and Senate. At the center of the document is the extraordinary bankruptcy procedure for secondary school teachers with the "request for suspension of tests, to protect the precarious school staff and the health of all the people involved", says the letter. "Starting the tests of the extraordinary competition (followed by a maxi-competition with over 500,000 candidates) in a context of hygienic-sanitary emergency does not produce any immediate effect in terms of recruitment - reads the letter - while exhibiting the school and staff involved in a possible increase in infections in schools and the possibility that many precarious workers, possibly finding themselves in a situation of contagion or quarantine as an effect of the work they do and which exposes them to such conditions, are excluded from participating in the competition ", say the labor unions. "We believe - write Sinopoli, Gissi, Turi, Serafini and Di Meglio - that Parliament can promote a more comprehensive rethinking of a procedure which, if immediately proves to be only a factor of further stress for schools, would still deserve to be reconsidered. in light of what has also happened in other sectors of the Public Administration, by implementing stabilization paths for qualifications and oral tests that would allow us to guarantee the stable recruitment of those precarious workers already employed today in the chair with seriousness and professionalism at the service of our system of education ". 

The National Association of

sent an open letter this morning to the Minister of Education, Lucia Azzolina, to report a series of problems that make it difficult to manage anti-Covid measures in schools. "Numerous reports have been received by the PNA on problems that make it extremely difficult to manage the measures necessary to ensure the continuation of educational activities in safety - wrote the president Antonello Giannelli -. In particular we have news of different practices, implemented by the departments of prevention of ASL, with regard to symptomatic cases. Other problems to be solved concern the timing of delivery of single-seater desks and innovative sessions, the management of teachers placed in quarantine in reference to distance learning, the use of additional Covid emergency staff and the timing of the assignment of substitute positions ". Giannelli concluded by asking that, "in application of the Memorandum of Understanding to guarantee the start of the school year in compliance with the safety rules for containing the spread of Covid-19 of 6 August 2020, the national table be urgently convened permanent".