“Too many three months of summer break for Italian students? On the contrary, for some time now I have even proposed the reopening of schools” not in September, but “on October 1st. The reason is simple and concerns the temperature. With global warming, high temperatures are not conducive to learning and school attendance. In my 'package' there is also the proposal to reduce the Christmas holidays by a few days, precisely in order to then extend the duration of the holidays during the summer”. For the pediatrician Italo Farnetani, if you have to cut something, it is better to focus on other breaks during the school year rather than on the good season.
“This choice would offer two advantages”, he explains to Adnkronos Salute, commenting on Matteo Salvini's words which go in the opposite direction: three summer months of stoppage, for the vice-president of the Council, are unique in the EU and it would be better to expire along the year of break weeks for kids. On the contrary, Farnetani supports a further lengthening of the summer period, accompanied by the choice to shorten the breaks during the year.
“The first advantage of this strategy – analyzes the full professor of pediatrics at the Ludes University-United Campus of Malta – is that this would allow children to study and learn when the temperatures are milder and the organism functions better and less stress Furthermore, no less important is the continuity that would thus be better guaranteed during the school year: students, especially in primary school but also for adolescents, need to maintain certain rhythms, they do not yet have such a capacity for mental operations. to be able to adapt quickly to changes and changes in daily life.”
“It is therefore important”, for the expert, “guarantee continuity, which then corresponds to the circadian rhythms of the organism. For this reason, a two-week break during the Christmas period is an interruption which then requires at least 5 days of adaptation to returning to school. “Change, but in a different sense from what the government might suggest,”It is in the teaching and learning interests of the students“, assures Farnetani.
And the point of view of parents, who have difficulty managing such long school closures in the summer? “In fact, one of the reasons for the demographic winter experienced in Italy, and throughout the Western world, depends precisely on the fact that the rhythms of today's daily life create difficulties in caring for children – reasons the pediatrician – But this problem cannot be solved by prolonging the lessons which, I repeat, must be carried out when the climatic conditions are the best”.
At school in the summer only sports
“However, it is right and very important that the Ministry of Education and Merit also takes charge of the summer period – Farnetani finally points out – and this would have a double advantage: helping families, but above all it could be an opportunity to let people practice sport and outdoor life for children, which is what is often missing during the school period. My advice is therefore to take advantage of the period from the first days of June until the end of September not so much for school attendance. , but above all to promote sport and in particular, given the possibility of using outdoor swimming pools, swimming. The school would thus take on the mission of teaching differently, combating the sedentary lifestyle with all the related pathologies, promoting the sport in general as an element of health and, regarding swimming, also as an element of safety, to combat drownings and accidents at sea”.
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