Rome, January 6, 2022 – “A planned e provisional suspension of face-to-face lessons (with the activation of distance lessons) per two weeks it is certainly preferable to an unmanageable situation that will certainly cause fragmentation, interruption of lessons and poor training effectiveness “: this is what we read in a appeal addressed to the Prime Minister Mario Draghi, to the Minister of Education Patrizio Bianchi and to the presidents of the Regions promoted by about twenty presidents and which has already reached over 1,500 members of school leaders from all over Italy.
The appeal
“We school managers are launching an urgent appeal for the resumption of remote lessons for two weeks – it says in the text -. For two years we have been working tirelessly to guarantee a school service severely tested by the pandemic. We do it, together with our collaborators, to the secretariats, to the teachers, to the ATA staff, often making up for the lack of the most basic conditions structural and organizational “.
Suspended or positive
“A few days after the start of classes after the Christmas break – the school administrators write again – during which we never stopped, we are witnessing with growing concern all’absence escalation. We have suspended staff because not up to date with mandatory vaccination and, every day more, positive staff at Covid, who will not be able to provide service and will not be able to have, immediately, a substitute.
We are talking about very high numbers, never seen before. We realize that underestimating the predictable and enormous shortage of staff will lead to insoluble problems. “
The requests
“At a time when at least the minimum surveillance of the classes (not to mention the teaching, which will be interrupted in many cases) – conclude the principals – we will not know, without staff, how to welcome and supervise children and young people. Equal concern weighs on the probable absences of ATA personnel. We will find it impossible to open the small complexes and guarantee security and vigilance “.
“We add, but it is well known, that the trend of the infection with the new variant of the virus affects the younger sections of the population as never before, even with serious consequences, and that the spacing is a measure on paper, given the real conditions of the classrooms and the concentration of students in the premises. We know that the virus is transmitted by aerosol and that the class environment is a very favorable condition for contagion. Unlike the previous waves, even before the Christmas suspension we witnessed a high incidence of infections within the classes (pupils and teachers, even if vaccinated).
The management protocol of cases burdens on healthcare companies, who are no longer able to guarantee rapidity for swabs, with consequent prolonged isolation of students and staff “.
The heartfelt conclusion: “It is one epochal situation, never experienced before, risky and already predictable today. It is not possible to ignore it. A planned and provisional suspension of the face-to-face lessons (with the activation of remote lessons) for two weeks is certainly preferable to an unmanageable situation that will certainly cause fragmentation, interruption of lessons and poor training effectiveness. We want to support it with strength, determination and with the awareness of those who are personally responsible for protecting the health and safety of thousands of people “.
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