No to the extension of holidays for students. As confirmed by Prime Minister Mario Draghi in the traditional press conference at the end of the year, we will return to school regularly in January, even if the data indicate an increase in infections among children (+ 96% pediatric hospitalizations for Covid according to the latest Fiaso survey) and from the front of the epidemiologists the voice of asking to start over with the dad rises. However, efforts will be made to strengthen measures to make institutions safer, starting with screening.
The alarm of the principals: situation worsens, 10 thousand classes in dad
The principals have raised the alarm. «It is clear that the situation in general is getting worse – said in recent days Antonello Giannelli, president of the National Association of Presidents – the national figures say so. I do not have official data on schools, we have remained at that of 10 thousand classes in dad out of 400 thousand, but I believe that in the last few days the number has increased. It must be said that we are still far from last year’s numbers. The hope is that this new variant will be stopped. So far the school is doing its duty with respect to many other sectors ».
Vatican against distance learning
The Vatican took sides against distance learning, a practice with which, according to a document of the Pontifical Academy for Life, “the impoverishment of intellectual learning and the deprivation of formative relationships have become shared evidence. The kids have to go to school. Let the children go to school, this is the renewed appeal that comes from the time of the pandemic ».
Dragons: We will have to take the necessary precautions for the school
The head of government explained that the executive will do everything possible, in terms of contagion containment strategies, to avoid a return of classes to distance learning. Draghi said he was “aware of the suffering young people have suffered as a result of the restrictions necessary to contain the pandemic. We will do everything to ensure that that experience does not repeat itself, but – he stressed – we will have to take the necessary precautions also in school. The first thing is screening: General Figliuolo has set in motion on this and if it is necessary, as I believe it is, to strengthen this effort, we will do it ».
11 Defense laboratories involved in eight regions
To increase the tests and prevent the DAD from tripping for the students, the commissioner has already made available 11 defense molecular biology laboratories in 8 regions, able to process the molecular swabs carried out at home by military mobile teams, thus supporting the enormous work to which the local health authorities are subjected. However, these are not enough numbers and therefore there could be an increase in the number of activated laboratories.