School, reopens with staggered entrances and carpet pads

The Government, on one point, is compact: in May the students will all be in the classroom and face-to-face lessons. The plan to ensure that the return to school can be as safe as possible includes admissions in staggered time slots, sweep tests to identify positivity and early scrutinies to June 1st to reduce lessons to five weeks. There is a risk, but it is calculated: the CTS has estimated that returning to the classroom could cause an increase in the RT, the contagion index, between 0.15 and 0.2.

There will not be a double shift divided between morning and afternoon, as some regions had requested. Instead, they will be scheduled different entry times between 8 and 10 or between 8 and 11, and this provision should have national value (even if the prefects will have to begin to address the issues of the individual territories as well, precisely because there are very different cases).

The transport is the weak point of the gear. High school students are the ones who most of all use public transport to go to school, and this is why the government aims to stagger entrances: it wants to ease the pressure on transport. To do this, more frequent vehicle sanitation is also envisaged. Meanwhile, the vaccination campaign continues: 75% of school staff received the first administration.

The unions, however, are holding back: according to them, the school is not 100% prepared for returning to the classroom. According to the principals, it will not be possible to respect the spacing of one meter between the students, while the lessons take place in the presence, because in a middle classroom there is only space for 17 or 18 desks at a safe distance.

As Paolino Marotta dell’Andis, the National Association of School Managers, explained, “it is difficult to organize everything in one week. Going from zero to 100% is a big challenge. Without services and without additional preventive measures it will be a leap in the dark. That of the executives is a more than justified anxiety ».

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