At school without masks: there is controversy over the "marginalization" of the unvaccinated

• Bianchi: "The school will be in the presence and with all the teachers"

• School, the regions are pressing for new monitoring.

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  Principals: "Green pass control impractical"

• School, Ministry of Education: no free swabs for no vax

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03 September 2021A few days after the ringing of the bell, the controversy over the resumption in the presence of the lessons does not subside.

The new front was born from the statements of the ministers Patrizio Bianchi and Roberto Speranza, who yesterday at the press conference recalled how in the classes where

, students can lower the mask at the desk, in a static situation. A condition that for a part of the policy can create discrimination against unvaccinated children.

The possibility of removing the mask in the classes in which everyone has completed the immunization, in reality, is already provided for by the decree law of August 6, launched by the government with the urgent measures for the start of the new school year. Sources close to Viale Trastevere let it be known that, together with the Ministry of Health, also taking into account the aspects related to

, we are now working on the implementation of this novelty which "absolutely does not want to create discrimination, but rather to allow a progressive return to normality inside the classrooms in correspondence with the progress of the vaccination plan ".

Therefore it will be necessary to issue guidelines that have yet to be written, therefore new discussions with social partners, with the Privacy Guarantor, with the health authorities.

"The process begins, but it is not immediate: the procedure must be well defined", explains Barbara Floridia, Undersecretary for Education.

While the 8,500 Italian schools are finalizing the plan in view of the return (the first will be, already on Monday, those of Bolzano), there are numerous doubts that are raised by the experts. And if the test on the

seems to have been passed with flying colors - albeit with some irreducible teachers sent home - now the announcements on the masks are also troubling school leaders.

"In the classrooms there will always be someone who is not vaccinated - replies the president of the NPC (the National Association of Deans) - And this will create a situation of discomfort, with the risk of

by the children who would like to remove the mask. , for example, if in a class of 25 students there is only one without a vaccine, how will this boy feel? ". And then there would also be the obstacle of the school's inability to ask for information on the state of health of the pupils. The president of the PNA, Antonello Giannelli, shares the minister's intent to return to class without a mask, "it is the goal that unites the world of school - he assures - safeguarding the privacy of students and avoiding any discrimination".

To achieve this, Giannelli thinks of a "super app, similar to the one the Ministry is preparing for staff, which signals the '

'

classes

, in which it will then be possible to lower the masks. It is not something that can be done in a short time but it is right to start thinking about it, "he says.

In the meantime, the unions are asking the government and the Ministry of Education for an urgent table on employees of contracted companies, starting with those that manage

in schools of all levels. They want "dedicated, adequate and clear rules, valid for the entire national territory, as well as precise operating procedures in the responsibilities, tasks and tools".

Even the administrative staff of the school asks for a discussion to address "some problems concerning the start of the year and others concerning the perspective of the education system, never adequately discussed previously", complains Giorgio Germani, president of Anquap, the National Association of Paintings. Public administrations.

The

ask to review the workforce, recruitment, career, legal status and economic treatment of the DSGA and all Ata staff. "Negotiations will open shortly for the contract renewal of the three-year period 2019/21, it is essential - insists Germani - to demonstrate adequate recognition to all administrative staff".