Maturity 2021 and mask, which one to use: but can it be removed?

Yes to the mask, but which one? And should it be kept during the exam or not? The Maturity 2021 is starting today. 540 thousand students will face it this year, again struggling with the emergency formula adopted 12 months ago: no collective tests but only an oral interview, a little more substantial than the traditional one. Although the measures adopted are similar to those of 2020, a research by Skuola.net shows that 1 out of 5 matures does not know which mask to wear. Read also The details of the Protocol, however, were made official only at the end of May, giving little time to the children to ‘study’ it well. The risk of making missteps on the day of the test is therefore concrete and widespread as shown by the monitoring carried out by Skuola.net for the State Police, on a sample of 1,000 students of the fifth grade. About one in five maturing students, for example, does not know that this year there are precise indications on the masks to be used during the oral, i.e. that surgical ones are considered the most suitable, the Ffp2 are not recommended while the so-called ‘community’ ones ( such as those in fabric) are prohibited. It is even worse on how to use: only 46% know that the mask can be lowered by the candidate during the interview if the required distancing conditions exist. And even on this last issue not everyone is up to date: the protocol sets the minimum distance that must exist between all those present in the place where the exam takes place at two meters, too bad that only 47% of the graduates, less than out of two, you show that you know. Bad surprises on the way, then, for the companions of that 8% of high school students who think they can bring a team to cheer for their oral, as long as they respect the distancing. It is only 77% who are aware that a maximum of one person will be able to enter the school. The others? The remaining 15% think it is even mandatory to face the test rigorously alone in front of the commission. Finally, the conviction that the temperature will be measured at the entrance to the school dies hard: only 1 in 4 knows that this will not be necessary, it will suffice to present the self-declaration. That yes will be essential to access the premises of the institute.