Azzolina: If there's a shortage of classrooms, kids will take classes in museums, theaters, libraries

Back on the back-to-school issue, set for September 14, Education Minister Lucia Azzolina. Interviewed yesterday by Peter Gomez, editor of ilfattoquotidiano.it, as part of a meeting of the Ponza d’autore cultural festival, the minister let it be known that if there are not enough classrooms to ensure that students are able to conduct classes with the measures that physical distancing entails, there will also be classes at museums, theaters, libraries and cinemas.

“We are resolving any critical issues,” Azzolina said. “To maintain the spacing meter, a major competition by Commissioner Arcuri to buy desks has also started. Those desks are needed. With the 2.9 billion we put on the restart we will have much more staff, both teaching staff and Ata. If all that is not enough, we are also looking for other spaces outside the school buildings. We are entering into a protocol with Minister Franceschini for the use of museums, libraries, theaters, cinemas. But it will be the last resort. So many small things to solve every critical issue and that will allow us to reopen schools on September 14.”

The hypothesis had already been aired in June, and now it seems to be gaining momentum since many schools will probably not have the adequate spaces to accommodate their students according to the rules of physical spacing.

Azzolina: If there's a shortage of classrooms, kids will take classes in museums, theaters, libraries

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