Davide Rossi, Secretary SISA - Independent Trade Union School Environment - www. sisascuola.it
An Italian citizen, not only an employee of the school, a student or parent, has easy to understand that it is difficult to speak for the school news and changes, even before the reform, if the news coincided with a cut of 8 billion (not million!) of € the education budget and a scissor kick at least 140 thousand jobs among teachers and administrative staff, technical and auxiliary staff, with immediate effect to have classes over 30 students and schools by providing for the death of small towns.
Moreover the government itself has a dual admission alone discredits him, the first is the admission of the wretched level of salaries of workers in the sector, the latter admits that 97% of education budget is for salaries. The logical consequence, even the most naive among administrators, would be to increase the school budget, defining the pay and then after that, start a project to reorganize the system, otherwise, it is clear, it would be a straightforward operation cash.
However, the situation is perhaps more serious, because the logic behind "saved" move against the school, for example, while in the military, the Berlusconi government spends and buys new technology of war at higher prices to promised cuts dall'avvocatessa Gelmini, is serious concerns regarding a total attack, I would say the system, the public school sanctioned by the Italian Constitution.
is clear that the logic of the Minister of Education is to disqualify, but step by step with scientific thoroughness, public education, encouraging private schools in fact. The full-time in elementary school so will be guaranteed only by the teacher, but joined by young volunteers of all inexperienced and underpaid for the 16 hours left to "fill in" the least worst. For others, the reinvention of the "teacher mom" is in total contrast to the professional growth of elementary teachers engaged for years in specific subject areas, a path followed by twenty years against the logic of the teacher "spin doctors" outdated. Easy
then provide the big cities who can afford it will try to send their children to schools, private course, in which the full-time is guaranteed by the volunteers, but by two teachers as still happens by the time all over the country, others steer their children in school average or higher, again privately, in which classes are not composed of thirty boys crowded, but where a dozen boys may have better way of being followed, perhaps finding the space and time for the educational relationship.
In short, the government wants to equate the public schools and private ones, by lowering and raising funds for the first, against the Constitution, the funds for the second but allowed the the second was not penalize victims of the new organizational models. Don Milani would say that is not even so subtle a way of "doing equally between unequal, increasing inequality and inventing office schools of Series A and Series B.
Equally small municipalities, most of the eight thousand of the Italian Republic, could see schools closed and the opening up of schools - in the same office buildings closed by the minister Gelmini - of sectarian or confederation. For small municipalities, often with five classes for 50 students in elementary school and three classes for 30 students in junior high, for years my proposal of the French model. These schools, which are essential for tissue Social small towns, to be kept open with a contribution of 50% of total expenditure, including salaries, from the regions and local administrations. The regions, which have serious and great responsibilities, they would play around with the programs in the north such as "padanizzarli" or vocational education, with the intention to get in cahoots with the most varied and more or less serious entrepreneurs to "gain ". This style is often very little pirate regions of Europe and has no involvement with a serious, such as would be the guarantee of financial support to elementary and middle schools of small towns.
The government projects, of which the minister Gelmini is a simple operating terminal are therefore devastating, with the clear objective of not respecting the indications coming from all international organizations responsible for promoting education and knowledge.
Nationals all then the problem arises of how to respond, how to defend themselves, be as proactive, even as more and rightly calls for alternative concepts for the Italian company, not just no.
In this sense the movements of fighting, occupations, strikes, demonstrations, now almost daily, have a value not only contested, but also highly proactive, because we are gathered together, talking and discussing, it revives the wire lost for too long of a commitment to the school of all.
Every day becomes more clear the need for a school where knowledge is the result of a search and a construction in which students are active participants and protagonists rather than passive receptors, there is a growing conviction that only Freedom of teaching and teachers' freedom of student learning may be the regulatory tools of instruction.
Certainly we need investment, trust, new awareness of the role and necessity of knowledge for the future. It is a long and articulated, not immediate, Gelmini and company were deliberately started a process of divestment of public school that has only two possible outcomes, his victory and the civil and social decline of the country, or its defeat and the opening of new scenarios difficult to imagine today, but reasonably aimed at an Italian school that goes back to being capable of a future.
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