For students who are old enough -- usually those above the age of around ten, teachers and students are carrying out some form of lessons online. But there are worries that such a long period out of the classroom will worsen educational results for Italian students compared to those in other countries, where schools will be allowed to reopen sooner.
For younger students, the lockdown represents a bigger challenge since one of the main roles of school at that age is socialization.
Two mayors of the cities in Piedmont said that small children should be allowed to gather so that their parents can go to work. Alberto Villani, president of the Italian Pediatric Society, a member of Azzolina's task force on school reopening, said such a move, however, would not take into account how difficult it would be to have small children respect social distancing rules or to wear masks, and it would also ignore the risks to the teachers who would have to work in crowded environment.
"It is absolutely premature to bring children of any age back to class," Villani told local media Il Fatto Quotidiano. "The indications of the technical-scientific committee, taking into account [all of the] trends and the numbers, tell us the situation is still worrying."
Though the current plan is for schools to reopen only for the fall semester, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte did give some hope to those hoping for an earlier reopening when he said quarantine deadlines in place could be moved up if the epidemiological data on the outbreak in Italy improved going forward.
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