A school with asbestos, and the principal writes to students: No running, you risk your health.

ASBESTOS AT SCHOOL –

Asbestos kills, and we know it. And we are still surrounded by asbestos, and we know this too. But now we discover that, while waiting for reclamation and renovations that were always announced but never realized, There is also a school, built with asbestos and still in perfect working order, which warns students on how to behave in order not to risk their lives.

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A SCHOOL BUILT WITH ASBESTOS IN FLORENCE –

We are Florence, in the headquarters of the first two years of theLeonardo da Vinci Technical Institute, a building constructed in the 1960s when the disastrous risks associated with asbestos were not yet known (3,000 deaths per year in Italy alone). Here, the principal Giacomo D'Agostino, while waiting for the remediation, has written a handbook for the students with the literal aim of "minimizing health risks as much as possible." Limit, indeed, but not exclude. The rules are diverse, and even difficult for young students to apply. For example, they are asked to avoid running: is it even possible at that age? Or to avoid slamming doors and windows in each room. And to avoid making holes in walls, even just to drive a nail, because the dust, which contains asbestos, could become very dangerous.

ASBESTOS IN THE LEONARDO DA VINCI INSTITUTE IN FLORENCE –

The story of the Leonardo da Vinci Institute may seem surreal, but it actually belongs to the history of a country where we still have many buildings, especially public ones, made of asbestos: 5 quintals are calculated for each ItalianIn this case the municipal administration of Florence (Matteo Renzi's city), which owns the school, managed to remediate only the roof in recent years. Then, due to a lack of funds, they had to stop. The entire safety of the institute would cost between 7 and 8 million euros.: money that no one is willing to put on the table. "The truth is that the school should be torn down and rebuilt from scratch," confesses principal Giacomo D'Agostino. He adds: "The only sensible thing I can do is try to limit the damage to the students, counting on their cooperation..." And when will institutional cooperation arrive in Italy, which is overwhelmed by asbestos?

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