Centrality of public school funding to private schools and opening of the new school year Italy has woken up to the last place among the OECD countries, investment in public education, and after us there is only Slovakia and makes us better than even Brazil. In percentage terms, to make the idea, only 9% of our public spending is earmarked for the school, while the average of other OECD states is 13.3%.
for our province, this means: in less than 150 teachers in schools of all levels, increase class size, gradually reducing the time in primary school, from thirty to twenty-seven hours per week, in spite of the different demands of the families and despite all efforts, publicly took the minister to respect the choices expressed parents; fragmentation of hours of teachers, in order to cover hours not covered in chunks over several classes (in the face of the teacher only!) drastic reduction of administrative and technical support staff, with the result that some comprehensive schools fail to ensure supervision of children or minimum services for the proper functioning of schools, lack of funds for project activities and / or workshops that qualify the training offer.
All this while the Minister says it will draw, for her daughter, a better school (probably does not refer to the public!) And defines "social evil" all those who for decades have provided temporary operation of the public school every opening of the year, but everything goes as planned, school leaders have had any indication to appease protests of teachers and hold the parents, while the three-year plan to reduce jobs is inexorably making.
Let it be clear that this does not happen "in the absence of the Italians," as he likes to say Gherardo Colombo in his wanderings among the Italian schools, we must take direct responsibility for all what happens, because we wanted to, not only by voting but also failing, failing to vote, failing to attend, failing to train the young generations, the ball then passes to local administrations, the first interface between citizens and the State, we ask to meet the cuts imposed on public education, with compensatory resources (such as asking the same PD in those in which government was in opposition), not shirk its responsibility for dealing with the quality of public school Today more than ever, means reoccupation of our future, invest in securities, make antibodies.
The economic crisis, job losses have forced many families, the municipalities of the province, to give the school full time for the difficulties to cope with the lines of the table, as many have been and will be forced not to enroll their children to educational tours, sports or recreation courses, summer camps (for many, the only alternative to the road during the long period of closure of schools), do not take to heart all these situations, not to intervene with subsidies that qualify more time to stay in school and enhance the educational offer, not to increase educators in the face of cuts to support teachers, operated by the government, confirming the negative value means that culture is only for those who can afford it and if there is not really a school for all and for all. If all this happens without the local government tried to go for broke, we lost not only the best schools which have aroused the envy of the world-renowned educators, as well as everything that has been the result struggles, achievements, research, discussion, but most will have lost confidence in the future of the younger generation, confidence in the possibility of change and therefore participation. We're playing a generation, we believe that, today more than ever, it is necessary that the Administration intended to focus the resources of the school, the only public school, the only state affected by the cuts, moreover, if the cover is short must have the courage to choose which way to pull it!