Distance teaching returns to conquer the rooms of Italian students. The announcement “Never again dad”At the beginning of the school year made by the Minister of Education Patrizio Bianchi in recent days it has been proven wrong by facts and numbers. In fifteen days, outbreaks at school and at the same time have increased the quarantene along with online lessons. In the last week the Istituto Superiore di Sanità registered a increase in Covid cases in all age groups and particularly in the aged population under 12 years: “In the period 8 – 21 November 2021, they were reported in this population 31,365 new cases
And the effect, in schools, can be seen: the legislation provides for remote return with three positives in the classroom. But the Ats in some cases make comprehensive assessments on the institutions. In Lombardy, in two weeks, we have gone from 842 infections (from 1 to 7 November) to 2.542 (November 21) with 902 classes at home.
In Piedmont the increase is smaller, but in one week sixteen more classrooms have lost the children among the desks, reaching 250 sections that have returned to learning in front of the personal computer. In Friuli Venezia Giulia the cases of classes in dad in high school have grown, from 26 last week to 64. Meanwhile in Campania a return to online lessons is expected for everyone at least for a month starting from 8 December. He wrote it on Morning and this is confirmed by various sources from the regional school office a ilfattoquotidiano.it
Others at work too regional school offices to monitor the situation: in Emilia Romagna, the director Bruno Di Palma, does not have numbers on his desk but admits to knowing that infections and quarantined classes are many more in recent days while Antonella Iunti, at the head of the USR of Calabria is preparing a timely monitoring that will be ready next week. In Sicily, impossible to have the data (which should be public): the director of the USR Stefano Suraniti he decided to speak only after the approval of the ministry.
The idea of a year-round on-site school is starting to creak. Even Minister Patrizio Bianchi seems to have resigned himself, returning to the General States of the Digital School, to praise the dad: “Covid has imposed the ability to use digital. But the irrational wave of dad’s witch hunt has started. I believe that we with conscience and science must be careful in understanding what happened and how to go forward. The alternative to dad was absence “.
Throughout Italy it is on the alert, the virus does not spare schools. On the contrary. Among the stalls, compared to last year it has increased. Data in hand of the Higher Institute of Health between 1 September 2020 and the end of October last year and 2021 15.3% (+ 7,022) more infections among children and young people aged 0-19 were recorded in 2021. In detail, last year with the start of lessons the cases among children from 0 to 9 years had been + 14,678 while this year they are + 25,096. Among the boys between 10 – 19 years old cases in 2020 had increased by + 32,367 while this year they increased by + 27,971.
Numbers that go hand in hand with quarantines and the emptying of classrooms. In Lombardy the most affected are primary school children: between 6 and 10 years the incidence is 276 infections while last week it was 157. As of 21 November in the region led by Attilio Fontana, there were 15,305 students at home. If we look at Milan, we are back at the levels of the end of February, the beginning of March 2020 with 539 classes (9,886 students) at home. Even in Piedmont – according to the data provided by the Region – the primary schools suffer the most with 98 classes in dad; the middle schools follow (67 classes); high school (48) and finally childhood where only 34 sections are at home.
The situation is different in Friuli Venezia Giulia. Looking at the numbers provided by the USR, we discover that in seven days high school cases went from 286 quarantine cases to 502, while in primary and secondary schools they even dropped. In CampaniaMeanwhile, the controversy has already broken out. The Region wants to stop classes for at least thirty days starting from the feast of the Immaculate Conception in the face of the increase in cases but principals and parents do not agree at all. The next few days the tension is bound to rise.