What it takes to free the school from political, trade union and bureaucratic interests
The point of Sister Anna Monia Alfieri
For at least twenty years, the complex theme of the School, referring to the freedom of educational choice of parents, the right to learn of students and the freedom of teaching of teachers without any economic discrimination, has warmed souls as it inflames social networks and fills the pages of campaigns. electoral, but sometimes only in the manner of will-o'-the-wisps… for what reason?
In fact, the theme, for the aforementioned aspects, requires a systemic and systemic approach to free the School from third parties – political, trade union and bureaucratic – and from the limits that make it classist, regionalist and discriminatory.
The state public school is affected, which without school autonomy fails to develop the potential of good teachers who see themselves overcome and paid on a par with those who make a living. And good public schools are equal, deprived of the freedom to be chosen by the poor, with school pluralism reduced to 3-5% in the south, at an all-time low in favor of the underworld.
It is inconceivable to spend € 9,500 per pupil in the face of this disaster; it is disturbing to receive dozens of emails a day from teachers begging to be "repatriated" for a promised but non-existent professorship. One example among many: there are thousands of precarious teachers of religion who for 15 years have trusted in an amnesty to change their role; on the other hand, as many thousands of new graduates in religious sciences aspire to a job, at least initially precarious, and then we'll see…. Well, the aspirants are hundreds of thousands more than precarious professorships, eg. in the north east. This disaster was possible due to uncertain data and the lack of a clear and univocal information system for the whole school system, a census of teachers and chairs.
In short, a truth operation that needs a government of national unity, together with a certain continuity in the Ministry: just think that the change of the minister is linked to the change of all the directors, in a turn of the wheel that requires at least 4 months of adjustment. . Only if the school restarts in presence for all students will it be possible to quickly complete the path of autonomy, equality and freedom of educational choice, with an autonomous state school and a free equal school.
With the school voucher, the family will be given the opportunity to choose; that this is possible can be seen from the support law decree bis which allocates 60 million euros depending on the number of students (so we look at the latter) who attend private schools, which in these days are committed to making the staff public , the budget, the resources. All material ready, were it not for the technical deadline which fell in August after the employees took a few days of rest with their families. But the transparency operation will not be blocked by the heat or by a deadline … clumsy. The will to restart is granite.
"Life goes away" … as Manzoni says: the whole healthy world of school understands it. Gone are the days when DAD was exalted beyond all reasonable measure; it was supposed to be so as not to die immediately, but it has dragged on too long. It is not life, that. Everyone understood. Nothing will ever replace the lesson in presence, the warmth of an adult gaze, the beauty of an explanation that opens the intelligence, request for clarification placed at the right time, the furtive glance at the companion of the heart, the grateful gaze for the suggestion arrived on the fly … They are not trifles, for students!
On the necessity of the school in the presence it is sufficient to also think about the fact that only in Puglia this year 11 thousand children have left the school circuit. This means that they were handed over to the mafias and the Camorra. They are young and very young who do not have a family behind them, who live in poverty. Where there is also cultural misery and desperation for economic reasons, it only takes a moment to go from school to the street. In southern regions such as Puglia, Campania, Calabria and Sicily, school dropout rates are much higher than in central and northern Italy. They range from 27% in the South to 12% in the North. In Europe, the overall rate is 10%. Thrilling numbers for Italy.
Rightly, therefore, there is no rest in viale Trastevere, which relaunches with #IoTornoaScuola , the section of the Ministry website dedicated to returning to the classroom in September is online. “This page is a tool – declares the Minister of Education, Patrizio Bianchi – that we make available to schools, students and students, families, citizens so that they have information and answers that are always updated on the new school year and on what will happen from September. In the coming days we will continue the work of accompanying schools with operational notes to the institutes and a Help Desk. We will work until the reopening and beyond, to ensure a peaceful and orderly start to the year ”.
On #IoTornoaScuola will be published the documents and official news of the Ministry, the health indications, the updates on the territories by the Regional School Offices, the most frequent questions and answers. The state is here.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/scuola-problemi-dad/ on Wed, 11 Aug 2021 13:27:10 +0000.