Poll shows that 90% do not trust the security measures taken by the Italian government
More than 90 percent of Chinese families living in Italy are afraid to send their children to school.
They will keep them at home for at least a few days after the start of the school year, scheduled for next Monday, according to the publication. Corriere della Sera.
It is the result of an online survey, still ongoing, published by WeChat, the social network most appreciated by Easterners, including emigrants.
Em Prato, where the largest Chinese community in Italy lives – around 50 thousand, of the 350 thousand in all of Italy –, the news caused astonishment, especially when it was published in The nation by Miaomiao Huang, an oriental journalist who collaborates with the Tuscan newspaper.
Research
The reporter interpreted the survey in which more than 7 thousand people wrote that they did not trust the security measures taken by the Italian government, announcing that they would keep their children at home without classes.
As Huang writes, the survey question, which has been circulating on the web since last Saturday, is the following: “The Italian school is about to reopen. Parents from the Chinese community, are you willing to send your children to school?”
The vast majority of people would have responded negatively. Some then motivated the decision not to send their children to school, punished by law, with the poor organization of Italian schools which could create confusion and above all provoke a new wave of infections.
The fear
At the beginning of the pandemic in Italy, as some teachers in Prato say, children and young people of Chinese origin were the most scared about the coronavirus.
“They always came to class with masks when it was not yet mandatory for us,” recalls a teacher, “and told us about the drama that was happening in their country, asking us to protect ourselves and disinfect our desks because the Covid-19 epidemic would arrive. here too".
In Prato, the Chinese community was not affected by the virus and has always been particularly attentive to prevention measures.
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