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January 21, 2021On the 2021 baccalaureate exam "at the Ministry of Education for the moment we have not taken any decision, beyond what the newspapers report".

This was said by Lucia Azzolina, Minister of Education, on the sidelines of a visit to Isis Gobetti-Volta in Bagno a Ripoli (Florence).

"In the next few days - he added - we will see how the exam will be done. There are some discussions in progress".



Azzolina explained that "we are all hearing: all the student councils, families, trade unions and teachers' associations. We will put together everything they think, more or less everyone agrees, and then within a few days we will tell how the exam will be done.

The term 'Light Maturity' coined for the state exam procedures, then underlined the minister, "I don't like it very much as a definition and it doesn't belong to me. It will certainly be a serious exam, which must obviously take into account the school year that our students and our female students are facing, and above all it must be an exam for which the decision is shared with everyone ".



School is a controlled environment

"School is not just learning, school is life", and "if the students leave the house anyway, and we know it very well, they might as well go to a controlled environment like school because the whole school community has worked to make it so. ", said Minister Azzolina, underlining that" when there is good will, on the part of all the institutions - because the school has a very complex governance - and if we all work together for a goal, the results It is obvious that we must always be very cautious, because we live in a pandemic. We must have a great sense of responsibility. But if the rules are respected, if we organize ourselves, as has been done, to avoid gatherings , in order to have more rides with the means of transport, sensitizing our students to the utmost respect for the rules, the right to education can be balanced by balancing it with the right to health ".



Right to education no less important than health

"Now the Regions are gradually reopening high schools to 50% in almost all of Italy and I hope that this will continue because the right to education is a constitutionally sanctioned right and is no less important with respect to the right to health and to everything that is written in our Constitution ", continued the minister.

On the reopening of schools, Azzolina continued, "the Government gave national guidelines, gave a framework in which to act, said exactly in every single area what could be done and not done, gave resources, put prefects available, the plans were made, province by province, with transport and all that was needed ".



Dad must be limited in time

"I believe that Dad is certainly a useful tool, but it must be limited in time: you certainly cannot make a Dad year", said Azzolina, on the sidelines of the visit to Isis Gobetti-Volta of Bagno a Ripoli (Florence).

Some students displayed a 'No Dad' sign in the windows of their classroom during the minister's visit.

"The government - he explained - has put in resources, the prefects have done a great job, even this summer there has been a lot of work, the president of the Tuscany Region Giani has shown that by working, organizing, teaming up with everyone, schools are they could reopen, knowing that zero risk does not exist, but there is a certain and sure risk, which is to take away a piece of the future from our generations and we cannot afford it ".

The reopening of schools to 75% in attendance, according to Azzolina, "will depend a lot on health data: in any case, bringing 50% of students back to school is certainly a success, we will see then in the coming weeks".