Schools, the CTS: “They must be reopened, you can go back to class”

The Scientific Technical Committee said yes: high school can go back to class, 50% according to the rules of the decree of 14 January, but also up to 75% in the regions where this is possible based on epidemiological data in the yellow and orange areas. The urgent meeting called on Sunday gave the green light and the regional presidents who will keep them closed will have to assume responsibility.

The Minister of Education is satisfied Lucia Azzolina: «The CTS recalled that schools have a limited role in the transmission of the virus.

He reiterated, it is not the first time he has said it, that prolonged absence from school can cause serious consequences in children, for learning and for the emotional and relational sphere ».

However, not all of them are included. The kids from the red zones stay at home: Lombardy, Sicily, Autonomous Province of Bolzano where they are also at home second and third grade. High school students of are in class today Lazio, Molise, Piedmont, Emilia-Romagna (here there is also a sentence of the TAR that forces you to return). The floors are local with staggered entry times, reinforced bus service, possible afternoon returns. Within schools, distancing and masks as already happens for students up to middle school.

640,000 of them return to school and join the students of Tuscany, Valle d’Aosta and Abruzzo who have attended 50% in attendance since 11 January, already since 7 in the province of Trento.

The Friuli Venezia Giulia confirms with an order the decision to return on February 1st as Marche, Calabria, Basilicata, Sardinia and Veneto. According to regional ordinances, high school students will return to class on 25 January in Umbria, Campania, Liguria and Puglia. Many continue to organize protests.

For Agostino Miozzo of the CTS, the return is necessary otherwise “an entire generation of young people will enter the labor market with a devastating learning and experience hole that will weigh on their future. International studies show serious damage to children in terms of learning. Real black holes are created in formation, experience, socialization. Then, the psychological consequences ».

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