The Province of Verona enters with a straight leg on energy savings close to the beginning of the new school year, proposing the short week at school and the return of distance learning to save on consumption. According to an assessment by the Verona Transport Company, the proposal of the Province of Verona if replicated throughout Italy would allow energy savings of about 4% thanks also to the rationalization of the public transport service.
The Undersecretary for Education Rossano Sasso, of the Lega, categorically rejects the proposal: "It would penalize those who have suffered most in the pandemic, children and teenagers. Speech closed".
The president of the deans of anp of Rome Mario Rusconi analyzes that "if the schools, for example, were to be closed every Saturday, it is unthinkable that on other days it would be possible to reduce lesson times and make hours of 50 minutes with school days of 6-7 hours: it would be an aggression to the student's right to have guaranteed training ".
All the major unions in the school oppose the proposal to reduce the time at school and return to dad. “Using the Dad to save on expensive gas seems to me pure madness if we think that the guidelines sent to the schools only provide for opening the windows, perhaps with the radiators on! School is a serious matter and saving on it means not investing in the future of the country. Rather, let's cut back on waste: I am reminded of Parliament whose radiators are on 24 hours a day and is instead frequented from Tuesday to Thursday ... and let's leave the school alone ", emphasizes the secretary of the Uil School Giuseppe D'Aprile.
Ivana Barbacci secretary of the CISL Scuola: "The school must be the last to be taken into consideration to proceed with the limitations of school time and with any conversions of lessons from presence to distance: you can dim the lights in shopping centers, starting to keep them closed on Sundays, for example, yes they can lower the heating in public offices but the right to education must be preserved, without charging young people for the energy emergency ".
The Lazio Regional Health Councilor Alessio D'Amato is contrary: "No energy drop in schools and hospitals: whatever the determinations on possible reasoning, school and health care must be preserved, this must be the fundamental commitment - he says - we must help young people and the sick".