Berlusconi, the public school and values \u200b\u200b
Teachers, families, students can not stand still.
You can not stand still and silent in the face and lie to the nth offense.
How can you not react, not to hear the voices of those citizens are at the same time, an actor and a recipient of a place where thought is free, free, is access without distinction of background, religion, sex, race, language and where they teach the values \u200b\u200bof our Constitution and our Republic. Public School of the Italian Republic.
The Prime Minister has come to say that, "teachers inculcate values \u200b\u200bdifferent from those of families, there's need to freely educate their children and then not be forced to send in a school in the state. "
shudder and are horrified by this arrogance and disregard of public schools, teachers, as well as families. But even more surprised by the lack of reaction of public opinion.
The public school, that of the Republican Constitution, has built the value of citizenship, the history of a country reborn, after a period of dictatorship, with the contribution and sacrifice of so many Catholics, not Catholics, socialists, communists, liberal democracy and tolerance, the value of the individual but of society all of a welfare state for all and guarantee of all.
This school was the center of the country's growth. Made up of teachers who passionately (and very little pay) have dedicated their lives to education and education of future citizens.
From what pulpit is a reminder of family values \u200b\u200band civic value!
years is bombard adults, families and adolescents with slogans and actions that, yes, destroyed the value of the emotional ties of family, respect of public affairs and of its laws, solidarity and tolerance, priming individualism, the value of 'look, the stronger over the weak messages that discourage education and the pursuit of knowledge as if it were useless to the person and the country.
slogan that has long throw mud on all operators of public schools, slogans that convey, intentionally, the desire for conflict of families from public schools.
"Public" has become a negative value rather than value added. And to do the systematic action of this government and Prime Minister Berlusconi has been to dismantle the public school system piece by piece: cut 87,400 teachers and 45,000 non-teaching staff, plus students per class, reformed the school and reducing the damaging ' provision of training and eliminating the possibility of customized educational interventions, less resources Financial schools (you constantly asking families to pay fees and to help bring something from home). No intervention to support the training of teachers left alone to manage the reform still confused (not to mention the blocking of their salaries and employment contracts). All this because
and for whom?
Why? Where citizens have the education takes a back seat and where the same public education is relegated to the essentials, it is convenient. The citizen informed, educated and trained, and able to make it self-analysis and critical and this is less convenient.
For whom? Education entrusted to the free market, after having denigrated and destroyed the school Public opens its doors to those who will have access to non-public schools, perhaps funded adequately and consistently, while continuing to cut their school state.
Nothing against non-state schools (I know of very good) but, finally, as he said in 1950 Calamandrei Piero, one of the fathers of our Constitution:
"First of all, a school of the State. The State must provide its schools. First of all the public schools. Prior to enhance the private school must speak of the public school. The public school is the prius, that is the private posterius. For there to be a good private school is necessary that the State is very good ... .... The school of the Republic, the school of State, the school is not a philosophy, a religion, a political party, a sect ... ...
Let us assume, so theoretically, there is a ruling party, a ruling party ... ... ... ... ...
He realizes that the State schools have the defect of being impartial. There is some resistance, in those schools is always there, even under fascism has been there. Then, the dominant party follows another path ... ...
starts to neglect the public schools, to discredit, to impoverish. Let it anemizzino and begins to favor private schools. Not all private schools. The schools of his party, that party. And then all care are beginning to go to these private schools. Cure of money and privileges. He even begins to advise the boys to go to these schools, because basically it says are better than those of the state. And maybe give themselves awards, as now I will tell you, or proposes to give awards to citizens who are willing to send their children to public schools rather than private schools.
And then there's another danger, perhaps even more serious. It is the danger of moral decay in the school. This sense of distrust, cynicism, rather than skepticism that is spreading in schools, especially among young people, is very significant. It is the sunset of the ideas of the old school of Gaetano Salvemini, the Augusto Monti: reliability, accuracy, honesty, punctuality. These simple ideas. Doing their duty, to teach. And that school is a school of character, forming consciences, to forming honest and loyal.
She must have read it right, and Prime Minister Berlusconi has understood that Calamandrei foreshadowed what could be done! Alas, in total silence, and resignation of all.
E 'need to re-join, discuss, Soul of Politics. It 'requires that teachers, political parties, professional associations, intellectuals, trade unions are brought out into the open and be towed to give back to public school the right value it deserves proper attention and reforms aimed at the good of the country and the person.
Bergamo, 27/02/2011
Provincial Secretary FLC CGIL Bergamo
Tobia Sertori
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