Anci Campania: 'School break to ensure student safety'

Anci Campania: ""School break to ensure student safety." Marine, "If we continue like this, there will soon be real risks." 

"Even before the Christmas holidays we saw an increase in the number of classes in distance learning due to the many outbreaks of contagion that broke out in schools, also involving teachers and ATA staff.

If we continue like this, we run real risks in mid-January because, despite our constant appeals and the warnings we receive from the school system, the measures adopted so far have been confusing and insufficient."

This was stated by the president of Anci Campania and mayor of Caserta, Carlo Marino.

The infection situation is worsening, as the increasingly alarming numbers show. As mayors, we asked for the simple Green Pass to be implemented starting in elementary school, because this would have encouraged vaccinations for children and young people. The government has provided us with wait-and-see and fragmented responses that have fueled further confusion. The school system is in serious difficulty, despite the strenuous efforts of teachers and school staff: reopening with these rules risks another surge in infections and a reversal of the vaccination plan..

"We ask the President of the Campania Region - continues Marino - To make the voice of Campania's mayors heard by the national government and the CTS, to prevent everything from being placed, as always, on the shoulders of local administrations and school staff. Therefore, as mayors of ANCI Campania, we are suggesting, following the appeal of numerous principals and school unions, a postponement of teaching activities so as to face this fourth wave with the utmost serenity and await the remodulation of the rules to be applied in cases of contagion in classrooms and the distance learning protocols.

"Without a teaching break to ensure the safety of students, teachers and ATA staff and without specific interventions - concludes Marino - schools in Campania will inevitably find themselves faced with an uncontrolled increase in infections and total organizational chaos."