Back to school. The reopening of schools, with the return in the presence of students, is an important event not only on an educational level, but also from a social and relational point of view, in particular for the most fragile children and young people. The pandemic, despite the dad, has accentuated the problem of educational poverty, causing serious delays in learning. And children who live in problematic contexts paid the greatest cost.
8% of pupils, 23% of disabled students are excluded from the dad
According to Istat (Bes 2020 data), 8% of children and young people and 23% of disabled pupils were excluded from Dad. In the 2021 report by Invalsi, the National Institute for the Evaluation of the Education and Training System, it is emphasized that, in comparison with 2019, the subjects in which the greatest learning losses were recorded concern students who come from different backgrounds. more unfavorable socio-economic-cultural, particularly in the South.
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Early school leaving has increased
A trend also involved the phenomenon of early school leaving which, in Italy, following the pandemic, recorded the highest rate of increase at European level. The consequences of the suspension of face-to-face lessons were also recorded by Sos Villaggi dei Bambini, an organization that has been involved in Italy for about 60 years in supporting children without family care or at risk of losing them, which it identifies in accessing the school system and in the right to education a central component for the development of girls, boys and adolescents. The organization has created, with the support of Rai per il Sociale, Rai Sport and Usacli, the awareness and fundraising campaign “The future is at stake” to combat educational poverty in Italy. The funds raised from the campaign will, in fact, be allocated to the project of the same name which is carried out within the Sos Villages of Saronno, Trento, Vicenza and Ostuni and in the cities of Milan and Crotone, through the support and development of the potential of the individual children involved. . There are two lines of intervention: one direct, to promote and support the abilities and skills of children, and one indirect, to strengthen the education of the most vulnerable families.
Impressed with sociability, sports, friends and sentimental experiences
“If there is one thing that this pandemic is teaching us day after day, it is that among the most affected categories are girls and boys, girls and boys, in particular from difficult backgrounds”, he stressed. Emanuele Caroppo, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, member of the Covid-19 Group of Experts for Childhood and Adolescence of the Prime Minister’s Office and coordinator of the Scientific Committee of Sos Children’s Villages. “There are many studies that have shown how much deprivation they have suffered from a psychological and social relationship point of view. They were struck not only on the formative and educational level but, and it should be said above all, on the level of sociality, sports activities, friends and sentimental experiences. This is an important price that our young people have paid and that today, with the reopening of the school in the presence, we adults, together with the school system, must not forget ».
Strong impact of closures on fragile and vulnerable children
“The closure of schools – underlines Samantha German, Head of Programs and Advocacy of Sos Children’s Villages – has had an important impact on children and young people of the most fragile and vulnerable categories, coming from family backgrounds at risk or victims of violence. For them the Dad, or an inadequate Dad considering the contexts of origin, was a response not without discomfort and consequences on the evolutionary level, attributable to factors such as the marked reduction in physical activity, social isolation, the lack of contacts with classmates and the teaching staff, the excessive use of electronic instruments, the irregularity of sleep and disordered diets ».