The Minister of Education, Patrizio Bianchi, explained that he has invested about two billion in the safety of the school; hired all teachers as soon as possible; provided a series of rules, from the spacing to the mask, to avoid as much as possible the use of Dad. At the sound of the first bell, on 13 September for many regions, an initial assessment can be made. Meanwhile, approaching that date, several issues still remain on the table, not all of which are within the remit of Minister Bianchi. The starting point is the vaccination campaign: 92% of school staff and 70% of children between the ages of 16 and 19 received the serum.
2.9% of classes are supernumerary
In the meantime, like every beginning of the year, the theme of chicken coop classes recurs. The current rule provides for classes between 15 and 27 pupils. Those in supernumerary, Bianchi recalled, are 2.9% of the total concentrated in particular situations or technical and professional institutes of the large urban suburbs. It will be necessary to act on these classes, with targeted resources. The point is that, with unchanged health rules, if there are no new spaces, it will be difficult to reduce the number of students per class.
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Screening e test salivali
Another node is the tracing, last year, with the resumption of infections, completely skipped, with the impossibility of the ASL to dialogue profitably with schools. An interesting proposal is the plan for a screening of the elementary and middle school population: 54 thousand students will be subjected to rapid salivary swabs every 15 days belonging to 1-3 sentinel institutes for each of the 107 Italian provinces. The Minister of Education said that saliva tests could be extended beyond the “sentinel schools”, recalling how the matter is in the hands of Commissioner Figliuolo.
All vax classes and masks
Another issue on the table is the question of eliminating masks in the case of fully vaccinated classes, all vax. The ministry is thinking about specific guidelines to accompany the principals in the management of these situations. It should be noted that the advisor to the Minister of Health, Walter Ricciardi, said that the mask will still be kept at school, “because even the vaccinated, to a much lesser extent and without serious consequences, can still transmit the infection”.
Transport and staggered entrances
As for transport, whose capacity is 80%, major problems remain in many territories. We are moving towards staggered entrances and exits in different schools in the 8-9.40 range. This especially for technical and professional students means going out later. Unless the lesson time falls below 60 minutes.