“But which one level playing field Would Valditara speak up if our professors couldn’t even bring up the Israeli-Palestinian issue in their syllabi? With this circular, only students’ willingness to face it is affected current affairs choose a side and even teachers become intimidated.” These are the words of Angela Verdecchianational coordinator of the Secondary School Student Network. When the school week resumes, young people will respond to a note sent on Friday afternoon from Viale Trastevere about “demonstrations and public events within educational institutions.”
The person who signed the document, which was sent to the ministry’s head office and peripheral offices, was professor Milan’s right-hand man or (this is the article used by Mim ed.) the head of the department, Carmela Palumbo. The circular letter, based on the premise of quoting thirteen lines of Law 92 of 20 August 2019 or the Introduction of Citizenship Education in Schools and the guidelines signed by the Minister of Education. Giuseppe Valditaraunderlines that “the organization and conduct, within scholastic institutions, of demonstrations and public events of various kinds often with themes of broad political and social relevance, is characterized by the presence of guests and experts have certain competencies and authority. In fact, it is believed that in organizing such events, the educational value of which remains indisputable, educational institutions, within the autonomy recognized by them, must operate in such a way as to ensure full compliance with the regulations. principle of pluralism and from freedom of opinion and guarantee, in any case, constructive dialogue and critical thinking training.”
Words emerged after the case of the Gaza conference at Righi’s secondary school in Rome, which was supposed to be attended by representatives of Global Sumud Flotilla, was canceled hours after its start after representatives of the League Rossano Sasso he has made it clear that there will be no cross-examination. A note from Valditara which, apart from causing controversy between the opposition and the majority, also inspired the younger generation.
Not even that Catholic Action Student Movement it still needs to be monitored and in those hours the national secretariat will meet to reflect and possibly take a position on the ministry’s note. Meanwhile, it’s there Middle School Student Network to make himself heard: “Since the beginning of the school year, Valditara has been trying to undermine manifestation of free thinking students about the ongoing conflict in Gaza. What is meant here is not a guarantee of a free comparison of different positions, of encouraging as deep and objective a knowledge as possible of the themes put forward, but of seeing objectively what is happening: a State, Israeloppress a population by starving them. The school is right to say that our government has taken a stand on this situation cowardly and hypocritical”, underlined Verdecchia announcing the demonstration of the entire student movement November 14.
The Middle School Student Network is concerned about the atmosphere created around the conference promoted by Cestes (Center for the Study of Socio-Economic Transformation) on militarization in schools where teachers are prevented from participating by getting days off for training. Those who also took a stand wereStudent Union through the national coordinator Tommaso Martelli that’s al Fattoquotodiano.it said: “The circular sent to schools by Minister Valditara regarding the same conditions in the school debate is dangerous. This is very much in line with the Minister’s idea of turning schools into spaces with less and less teaching autonomy and less opportunity to take initiative. The idea of equality, arbitrarily imposed on every debate, only by national direction, if not a desperate attempt to impose conservative, old and biased ideas, close to the ideas of our ministers and government, is at least a little thought”.
UDS also took advantage of the initiative in Righi: “We do not know whether the Minister in this case wants to be present one of the IDF soldiers who captured members of the fleet. It is true, as written in the circular, that the development of critical thinking is the prerogative of schools, but if we want to identify the causes of the decline in the quality of education we must look at the continuous cuts to education over the years proposed by this government, or at the authoritarian, conservative and nationalist teaching guidelines imposed by ministers.”
