Rome, from Newton to Donatello: 10 thousand pupils in dads
They are positive or in isolation and so for 10 thousand students the bell will ring from home, in Dad. Roman schoolchildren are already gearing up for the return and for institutes a very long list of students who will not be able to return due to Covid. The hope was that, during the Christmas holidays, the contagion curve would cool down. On the other hand, the accelerated push by Omicron has registered record numbers. In some cases there are already 30 positive pupils with a general average of between 10 and 15 infected at school. But the line drawn by the principals is clear: distance learning only for those who are positive and who are ending the quarantine. For all the others, between 7 and 10 January, the lesson will be in attendance: «The infection occurred when the school was closed, so it is clear that there is no danger for classmates. Our goal is to keep schools open, to ensure our children have lessons in person for as long as possible. After two years of pandemic, it is our duty to guarantee the lessons in the presence »announces Valeria Sentili, vice president of Assopresidi. While the number of contagion rises also among teachers and school staff. With the race in search of substitutes that has already started: «The situation is complex – concludes the vice president Sentili – but we are very determined not to let the classes lose more hours of school. What is happening, the peak of infections even in school, shows that schools are actually safe, we have very strict protocols “.
Omicron, in Rome air purification systems arriving at school. Gualtieri: “We are working on it”
THE MAP
So the Omicron tsunami did not spare the under 18s, between 187,000 high school students and 200,000 elementary and middle schools. As confirmed by the numbers coming from the schools: at the Isaac Newton scientific high school in San Giovanni there are 30 positive enrollments and who will not return after the Christmas holidays. Again: you are at the Vittorio Colonna linguistic high school in the center. The situation is more complicated in comprehensive institutions where the number of vaccinated people is still low. So: the Levi Montalcini institute in Don Bosco where there are 10 who will remain absent. The same Al Marco Polo at the Romanina and at the Donatello school in Torre Gaia. Seven at the Gaeatano De Sanctis in via Cassi. With the negative record – recorded however in Tivoli, a town on the outskirts of the capital – of 32 pupils already infected. “For all those who will not be able to return due to Covid, the hours will be shared remotely, on this point the network of principals agrees” reiterates Cristina Costarelli of Assopresidi.
RETURN
With school managers grappling with another knot to be solved: the supllenti to be recruited as teacher training, also absent because they were infected. While selling the concern of families. The national committee, IdeaScuola, had presented in September the proposal for special filters, designed for air purification. Just yesterday the Capitol together with the Lazio Region asked Spallanzani for a scientific opinion. A solution, already tested in the EU, as an anti-Covid tool. Based on the findings of the National Institute of Infectious Diseases of Rome, the institutions should work for the ventilation of school environments. Yesterday Mayor Roberto Gualtieri announced that the Municipality will do its part “also for the ventilation of school environments.”
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