“The school world has proved to be a powerful anti virus,” says the president Sergio Mattarella inaugurating, from the Nautical Technical Institute of Pizzo Calabro (Vibo Valentia), the school year. “Proof of this is the figure of 93 percent vaccinated among teaching and non-teaching staff. The school has already achieved what is a goal for the whole society. And it wants to go further, for the safety of all. more dutiful in the places of children and young people “.
Covid, the President Sergio Mattarella: “Thanks to vaccines, the school no longer closes”
This year the President chose Calabria for the traditional ceremony, “Tutti a scuola”, a real party broadcast live on Rai Uno (hosts Flavio Insinna and Andrea Delogu), which was attended by many Olympic and Paralympic champions: Marcell Jacobs, Vincenza Petrilli, Stefano Raimondi, Giulia Terzi; the Azzurri footballer Leonardo Spinazzola, European champion in London; among the artists were Massimo Ranieri and the Zecchino d’oro choir.
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Mattarella praised the readiness of young people to get vaccinated: “Numbers that we hope will get bigger and bigger. Not infrequently in the family it was they who explained the good reasons for immunization, to break the delay and be the first to get the vaccine, even when the parents wavered. The kids wanted to get out of the house, go back with their friends, and so they helped the whole society “.
Accompanied by the Minister of Education Patrizio Bianchi, Mattarella has returned to criticize those who are evading vaccines, making “a regressive view” prevail.
For the head of state, the restart of the school, finally in the presence, “is the most evident sign of the restart of Italy”. School is oxygen for society. “Its functioning mirrors that of the country”.
The investments made in recent weeks to allow the opening – hiring teachers and staff, adaptation of the classrooms, structural and organizational interventions – have been defined as necessary. But they are not enough. “They will have to assume continuity and a strategic perspective with the National Resilience and Restart Plan” to complete modernization, because “the school is a central chapter in a Restart Plan. The knowledge and culture of the younger generations are the best driving force for tomorrow. of all of us “.
According to Mattarella, the pandemic the school world was an example of civil passion and solidarity “. The President does not give a completely negative opinion of Dad,” in the sense that he contributed, despite its inevitable completeness, to increase and knowledge, to increase computer literacy in families. And society needs to grow in digital knowledge “.
However, Dad “also highlighted the development gaps between the different areas of the country. In some territories the network does not arrive or arrives badly.” This unacceptable reality “must be corrected with European resources.
With Covid, the school was the first to have to close its doors, this must no longer happen, also because “school dropouts and educational impoverishment, especially in already disadvantaged social areas, have worsened and undoubtedly represent a heavy legacy of this season. The condition of loneliness experienced by so many young people has sometimes left traces: they must be erased by recovering the value of social life, at school and elsewhere “.
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When he said that the school is an anti-virus, there was a round of applause from everyone present. Then there is a praise from the teachers, for the commitment shown in an exceptional situation. Many have contained “with ingenuity and determination”, the abandonment and disengagement of many young people, chasing the absent. They built connections often thanks to the generous collaboration of their classmates, who sometimes have computer collectors no longer used, who sent them for repair, and then donated them to those who did not have any “.
The school must bring out the talents of the future. There must therefore be equal opportunities. And the condition “consists in making effective access to education and culture open to all, to allow talents to emerge that otherwise would remain unexpressed. So it is written in our Constitution”.
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