In a brief comment on Facebook, I already pointed out - and luckily I was not the only one - the oddity of a head of government (unfortunately ours, ça va sans dire ) that denigrates the public schools of his country, applauded by his minister of education. Such a thing could not happen anywhere else in the world. If chiedeste a Barack Obama com'è la scuola pubblica statunitense, egli certamente comincerebbe a citare risultati positivi e a fornire statistiche per sostenerne la validità. Anche se faceste la stessa domanda a Gheddafi - se avesse tempo per rispondervi - vi spiegherebbe che le scuole della Jamahiriya sono le migliori del mondo. Direbbero tutti la stessa cosa, anche quelli consapevoli di mentire.
Spero almeno che l'ennesima cretinata detta da B. ci spinga un po' a riflettere sulla scuola italiana. Ammetto che sul tema sono manicheo: per me la scuola è pubblica o non è. Non ci sono vie di mezzo. Naturalmente le famiglie hanno tutto il diritto di scegliere per i loro figli una scuola privata, ma questa scelta non deve assolutamente ricadere sulla collettività. If you want a private school must pay for it until the last penny. I know this is a utopia in Italy - and a curse - because this country stands for private school and Catholic school can not remove the hierarchies of those resources that have been hard won. I must admit I have been really good, because they are managed, against the constitutional provisions, to let the feeling spread the idea that families have the right to choose schools for their children who feel more akin to their values. It is not true: families have a constitutional right to have a public school that works, if you do not avail themselves of this right is their choice, with all the consequences, also the economic case.
That said, the problem is not the difference between public school and private school - however it is very largely of inferior quality, since the teachers there generally dropped from public schools to teach students who fail in public school - which frankly is the quality of the private school is something that should interest the institutions and society. The real problem is the gap in public schools between north and south of Italy. In some regions of the South, according to data from Pisa (an acronym for Programme for International Student Assessment ) provided Invalsi, the Evaluation Institute of the Italian school, almost 25% of the olds are not able to perform simple arithmetic calculations or to calculate the exchange rate between two currencies, 15% are not able to interpret and process information in a simple text. In Italy the school dropout rate has reached 19.2%, again with huge differences between north and south. According to the Agnelli Foundation over the past year a student at Pisa in the north has 68 points more than his colleague in the south, as if this were back a year and a half.
This, dear President, it should be ashamed of, even more of the wind his words or his shameful moral conduct.
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