Rotating benches in schools? I’m not anti Covid. Word (surprise) of Arcuri
What Commissioner Arcuri said about the single-seater rotating desks and the knots still to be solved for the reopening of the school
There are only a few days left until the first bell rings which should sanction, after the closure of March, the reopening of Italian schools. However, there is only one certainty in these hours: there are still many knots to be solved. Too many.
Meanwhile, the first single-seater benches have arrived in some Roman schools that had been ordered with the funds of the Relaunch decree. Too bad that the new banks, however, do not serve to contain the infections. Let's go step by step.
WHAT ARCURI SAID
Let's start from this last point. Surprisingly, to argue that the banks are not anti-Covid was the Commissioner for the emergency Domenico Arcuri, who according to reports from the Sole 24 Ore , said, during a meeting between Arcuri himself, Anci, Upi and the unions, that the new equipment "has nothing to do with the request for the distancing, but is the result of a desire to renew the equipment of the schools: in 173 thousand cases chairs were requested, but not desks".
CHAIRS WITH WHEELS: "NOT BY STANDARD"
More chairs than desks, Arcuri specified when speaking of orders. But here too there would be another question. As already reported by Start Magazine , Emidio Salvatorelli, owner of Vastarredo, one of the companies selected by Commissioner Domenico Arcuri to supply Italian schools of all levels with two million desks and 700 thousand chairs, plus 500 thousand with wheels, supported a Repubblica that for chairs “there are no Uni regulations that allow them for minors. It will be a lot of trouble for the principals in the event of an accident ”.
MORE CONFUSION
In all this, the fear of a surge in infections puts the reopening of schools at risk, while there is no lack of controversy and confusion on the part of some local authorities on the spaces in which to hold lessons and on transport to bring children and young people to school .
SUMMIT AT PALAZZO CHIGI
To try to find some solution, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte yesterday met with the Minister of Education Lucia Azzolina, the ministers responsible for the reopening, the owner of the Mit Paola De Micheli and the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza, Angelo Borrelli, head of Protection civilian, and Commissioner Arcuri.
SEROLOGICAL TESTS
Serological tests have also started in view of a safe reopening. But in some regions there would be no kits for family doctors and some unions are asking for tests to be carried out in schools and local health authorities and not in family doctors' clinics.
THE TRANSPORT QUESTION
Among the knots to untie, then there is that of transport. How will children and young people reach institutions safely? On the means, the Technical Scientific Committee reiterated, we must keep the meter away, even with the mask, with all that this choice entails. Insufficient means and, certainly, delays.
Differentiate entry times as a solution? No. At least this, according to Ansa reports, "cannot be the solution", according to the coordinator of the regional councilors for transport, Fulvio Bonavitacola, who recalls how "the Regions had long ago called for a national strategy in this regard".
THE CASE OF CAMPANIA
Campania, in all this confusion, tries to move in solitude. The region will equip institutes with thermoscanners for greater checks at the entrance to the institutes.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/banchi-rotanti-nelle-scuole-non-sono-anti-covid-parola-a-sorpresa-di-arcuri/ on Tue, 25 Aug 2020 13:50:30 +0000.