(by Massimiliano D'Elia) "We don't send our children to school". Thus a group of mothers in Velletri, in the province of Rome, in the face of the confusion that has accompanied the opening of schools in recent days. The confusion due to many variables that have now gone mad. Teachers and school staff who refuse to take serological tests, elderly teachers, tens of thousands in Italy, who do not want to return to their classes to avoid the risk of being infected, many are immunosuppressed for previous illnesses.
Yesterday in high school the first case of coronavirus in Italian schools: a high school student enrolled in the last year of the Marymount International School in Rome tested positive for Covid-19. According to the ASL Roma 1, 60 people, including classmates and teachers who have come into contact with the young person, are in preventive isolation to monitor any symptoms. The students will reportedly follow the lessons with distance learning.
The Regions then go in no particular order, opening of schools before and after the elections of 20 and 21 September with many misunderstandings with the central government. One of all the loans that do not arrive on time for the required adjustments. Who pays for the rental of other vehicles for school transport, or to guarantee overtime hours for drivers? (the government has promised around 200 million euros, will that be enough?) Then there is the question of the masks. The Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza in the classroom he said that 11 million masks will be delivered every day to Italian schools, the teachers, on the other hand, ask us to take them from home and sign a sort of self-certification of responsibility. To us parents, who assures us, instead, that all teachers and school staff have taken the serological test? These are now insane variables that cannot be controlled which will lead the Italian school to more and more "chaos", about 9 days after opening.
The benches of Arcuri do not arrive. Many billions of euros made available to the super commissioner for the emergency, Dominic Arcuri to supply and deliver the famous single-seater benches to all Italian schools, around 8000. As was imaginable due to the numbers and the time available, it will not be possible to deliver them all at the beginning of the school year. Another "bluff" to the detriment of Italian students, so much so that many principals, teachers and parents have worked "self-financing" to build disposable benches with about 30 euros of material per piece (to reveal it the other day a reportage by TGCOM on a school in Milan).
Speaking of disposable counters and their price, the parliamentarians of the League managed to get some indiscretions on the companies supplying the counters that won the Arcuri tender. This was revealed by an investigation published by the newspaper La Verità: "The mystery of the mini company that won the maxi contract of 45 million for the counters sets up stands, has a capital of 4.000 euros and invoices 400.000 a year. Yet Nexus will deliver 180.000 pieces to Arcuri ”.
The Nexus, with a share capital of 4.000 euros, was awarded a contract of almost 45 million euros. They have been paid for 247,80 euro for each single-seater counter, cost inclusive of delivery and set-up, but according to operators in the sector who do not want to appear “it is a high figure. Let's say excessive ".
For the League, "it is not a fair price, it is not a fair investment that is being made for the school. And the Nexus certainly won't be making the desks. Even if he bought them on the market, he must have economic purchasing capacity, but he proves that he does not have any. Who finances it?“Asks the honorable member By digging them out, but many Italians ask themselves.