Education Minister Lucia Azzolina
said Wednesday that the various costs of closing schools during
the COVID-19 pandemic could be higher than those of keeping them
open.
Italy's high-school students are not going to class at the
moment, but are having lessons via distance learning, as are
pupils in the second and third year of middle school in red-zone
high-contagion-risk regions.
But Campania has closed all of its schools, including elementary
and nursery schools, as had Puglia, before the decision was
reversed after a court ruling.
"Opening schools does not entail risks, if anything, the risk is
closing schools," Azzolina told RTL radio.
"There is regionalism of inequality at the moment. Some children
are going to school in red zones while others are not, even
though they are not in red zones.
"I think it's a cultural problem. The school system has always
been treated like the country's Cinderella from all points of
view, including cuts.
"Today this is changing, including with the budget law, but also
in terms of the attention from families, students and the
media".
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