Mark Irons Megachip
If it had been in force Law 133, the one with which it cuts about 8 billion euro to the Italian school, pretending to reform it, what I have to tell would not have happened. Neither would be possible to tell if at the material had been made the unfortunate idea of \u200b\u200bseparating different classes in the children of migrant parents in Italy.
still have a copy of "Embers" by Sandor Marai, which bears an inscription which still causes me some excitement: "A big hello and thank you for letting us make a big leap in creativity. The children at the 5th A. Rome, 17 June 1999. "
The facts as they went. I suggested to the class teachers who attended my daughter Electra to involve students in "Communicating Rome", an award established by the industry to improve communication in favor of the capital.
The theme of this year was welcome, because he approached the Jubilee of 2000, the city was preparing for the event with great works of renovation and redevelopment.
The first meeting with the children and the teachers took an afternoon in their class on the second floor of the Elementary School Emanuele Gianturco. It was not the first time I was in school during school hours: the children were doing exercises for the creation of a hypertext on "The seagull and the cat" of Sepulveda, a book that I gave my daughter a day before the school and that the teachers adopted as a teaching aid. Another time I had read in class a few short tales of a Moroccan writer, stories about children in Marrakesh, which had been translated into Italian by fax from a friend, Wilma Labate who was thinking of making it a film.
told children what to do to participate in the competition "Communicating Rome" and above as necessary to do so. The restriction on the requirements of Italian citizenship and age was superseded by the decision in writing that we would work on behalf of the Italian master.
Then I gave him the "brief" as we call it advertising the story of the problem, identifying the object of the campaign and the media to use.
I asked the children in the 5 th A: "How many of you were born in this city?". They got little hands twenty-five. I asked again: "How many of you have fathers and mothers who were born in Rome?". This Once the hands were raised just under half of those present. Finally, I asked, "Who of you have grandparents who were born in Rome?" It rose more than two or three hands. Smiles, Italy while the teacher looked at me a little puzzled. So I tried to explain. And I told them that was evident in their experience, their grandparents before and some of their parents then came to settle in Rome, for many different reasons. But what seemed to be important in this city that they had stopped, they started a family, had given birth to children who are now living and attending schools in Rome. Ultimately, if the children of that class Rome was their hometown, for some of their relatives was Rome was adopted city.
"So, what do you think, if our children's slogan was, in fact, Rome adopted city?"
After some hesitation, twenty-five little heads did so, mind the teacher wrote "Rome adopted city" on the blackboard. The brief meeting was over, we would see after a few days to decide which ideas to implement.
I arrived with three films hired by proposing the use of a thirty-second excerpt, taken from "The March on Rome" by Dino Risi and Gasmann Tognazzi, as two fascists, trying to convince a military give them some of his rations. That does not even think about it. Then Gasmann, says, "'a militant, all semo de Rome." And Tognazzi, betraying its origins Po, went: "And yes, we are all Romans, shame on them mortecci."
It was decided to proceed with the processing of this piece, which was mounted in the tail end a cartel, depicting the wolf suckling the twins, the symbol of the capital, one of which was white, one black, bearing the inscription "Roma adopted city." Finally we decided that we could subscribe to the prize is the spot that the poster with the wolf and the twins, one white and one black.
In the following days, a child of the class recorded the final sentence in the Cat Sound Franco Agostini, who served for free to hack and make the materials needed for the assembly. Then, thanks to the knowledge of the mother of a child, accompanying a group of them in the Avid editor at a film studio in Rome. Finally, with the help of volunteer Andrea Bayer, art director, did the montage of the wolf with the twins of different colors and presented at the 5th to the layout of the poster.
take several weeks and one day the jury to "Communicating Rome" Italy has informed the teacher that the work had been selected and invited to attend the awards ceremony, which was held at the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome.
the evening of award the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome was full of audience and authority, while engineers Rai maneuvering the cameras for televising the event. In a row of red chairs at the bottom of the pit, twenty-five children in awe for the outcome of the award.
was proclaimed the second prize category of the spot and the teacher called on stage Italy. Who thanked him and said that the merit of the students was in his class, which invited him to go on stage. Twenty-five children in single file as mice, kick a thousand expressions of surprise on the stage. There was a little agitated, and then exploded a thunderous applause. The TV presenter approached the microphone to a girl class, he said, candidly: "I was born in Rome, my father and my mother is from Sri Lanka. This is the adopted home of my parents and I have been well received by my friends at school. "He came down the theater. At the end of the 5th Elementary School Emanuele Gianturco also the winner of second prize for best poster.
This story has an epilogue that's worth mentioning briefly. In addition to awards of merit, the two second prizes consisted of two trips in tribute to the Maldives, made available by one of the sponsors of the evening. The voucer were provided without charge by the teacher to two sets of parents who made a donation to the school, which was useful to integrate the contribution to the school's year-end trip in 5 °, which not everyone could participate because of the participation fee. Since this individual quotas were lowered significantly, all pupils of the 5th to go on a trip three days in a seaside resort on the coast of Lazio.
Today my daughter Electra has twenty years of his compagnetta school whose parents migrated from Sri Lanka do not know. Meeting but his dad, who works at a popular bar in Piazza del Pantheon, in Rome. Every time I happen to come in and have a coffee and the man returns my greeting with a slight smile, as a long and ancient understanding.
Recently, the Minister of Education said they did not understand the reason for protest in recent weeks that shook the world of public schools, from elementary to university against his reform bill. I'm not sure tell the truth. He knows that I tell you, dear lady minister: when a product does not work, there is marketing that takes.
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