Cost of swabs paid by schools, solutions to avoid chicken coop classes and concrete support for Green Pass checks. These are the points on which school unions and Ministry technicians discuss in terms of the safety protocol in view of the new school year but on which there is still no agreement
After the first, interlocutory confrontation yesterday, the trade organizations were convened in the afternoon. From the latest draft, steps forward seemed to emerge for the go-ahead for the document that “applies in the school year 2021/2022, as long as measures are envisaged to contain the Covid-19 epidemic”. But the distances have emerged precisely on the free tampons to the professors without Green Pass, with the unions in favor and the principals against.
In terms of vaccinations, the latest draft establishes that the Ministry of Education undertakes to ask the Ministry of Health “to guarantee a preferential lane for the vaccination of school staff, through priority access, in order to expand the number of vaccinated” and to “ensure a constant relationship with educational institutions also aimed at preventive swab and contact tracing procedures in the event of possible contagion”.
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As regards, however, the buffer issue and in particular the costs that would be incurred by teachers who do not adhere to the vaccination campaign, the ministry says it is ready to provide “through the Directorate General for human and financial resources, administrative and accounting assistance to all educational institutions on the use of extraordinary resources provided for purposes consistent with the management of the extraordinary health emergency situation “. The educational institutions – it is said in the draft – through agreements with the Local Health Authorities, “will use these resources to support the cost of carrying out diagnostic swabs for school staff”. Furthermore, concrete support is provided for the verification of the school staff’s green passes.
With regard to distancing and the risk of “chicken coop classes”, the Ministry “undertakes to immediately activate an experimental plan of intervention on educational institutions that have particularly large classes, in order to immediately guarantee the conditions of interpersonal distancing, through the allocation of specific resources that allow to implement targeted and specific actions (more teachers, more ATA, attention to logistical aspects and to the expansion of the training offer) in view of the more organic intervention, already planned, which is carried out with the resources of the PNRR aimed at improving the relative parameters “.
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Regarding the activity inside the classrooms, schools will have to “guarantee a good exchange of air by natural or mechanical means in all environments”. Access to “common areas must be regulated, with the provision of adequate ventilation of the premises, for a time limited to what is strictly necessary and with the maintenance of a safety distance” and also “the use of the premises used as a school canteen is allowed in compliance with the ordinary prescriptions of personal hygiene and canteen environments and physical distancing, possibly providing, where necessary, also the provision of meals for different time slots “.
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