1 - Change the school
( Right to Education, Education, Multicultural )
Italy is a country which has always been little investment on the training of people, especially on a mass training. A country that continues to consider a sustainable education system that leaves behind a large part in the paths of individuals to whom it applies.
The effects of this shortsightedness are obvious and serious. The statistics, in fact, a decade in our country tell us that the school drop out rate is much higher than the European average. In Italy too many children are forced or choose not to graduate, because of economic and cultural leave, even before of 16 years, your course of study.
The statement can not be considered an investment that families, according to their means, do it for the future of their children, must, as written in the constitution, a right and duty of all.
Globalization, despite its great contradictions, we know, is not a zero sum game: it is also an opportunity for all. For all individuals, like all nation-states, to measure their talents and resources for questioning and make progress.
We can not think, however, that a challenge like this can be captured and "play" to the best of a community brought to the people to decide on its future by looking to its past, looking to their economic and cultural conditions of departure, rather than to their own abilities and ambitions.
Only by putting people in a position to choose their own path in life and to live freely in our country will turn into a modern community, to the occasion. A community - or a combination of multiple communities, school autonomy - freedom of individuals to address their future.
In Italy the right to study the laws are the sole responsibility of the Regions. This legislation creates a very uneven in different areas, to which is left even the freedom to decide on cultural approaches employed, from region to region, in the absence of a national framework within which to place their action.
They range from the regions, based on a model that tries to take care of all of the conditions, many allocate funds for scholarships, transportation, textbooks, etc. .. For others that do conceive the right to study as a "reimbursement" of expenses incurred on those families who freely choose or can afford to spend and invest on the education of children. Often, this model is reflected in bonuses handed out to the families of students of private schools. Clearly, these
two models, if taken as an extreme, there is a majority of regions that allocate very little gray and / or interested much less in terms of social and political right to study, first ignoring the centrality of economic policies within the territory .
long the center-left, youth organizations, student associations, calling for a national framework law on the right to an education that sets the minimum levels guaranteed in all regions, we also think that on this issue is necessary to consider, because region to region, there can be a different cultural setting in place all under the same conditions to study, because it would mean have different settings on the sense of the school.
our school, we know, is still based on the model of the now prehistoric Gentile reform, with the building when Venice was still inhabited in 1923, whose thinking was to have an education system that may play a role of mass literacy, and 14 years separate the guys who would choose a high school: the ruling class, and those who would choose a technical or starting professional work force.
Net assessments about what was wrong, back in '23, to have a school system in which an individual's place in society was almost irretrievably determined by the choice of school, it is clear that this system is impractical, especially today, after the Italian company, the labor market, the level of banal mass literacy have changed. Today we have a society where the illiteracy rate, at least one, is very low, where the number of members of the university has grown exponentially, in which the technical work has become specialized work. Today the school should start school autonomy, enhance any training in the same way, having united, not separated, as in the logic of the right knowledge and know-how.
In the third millennium, the "Knowledge", understood as a set of knowledge and skills necessary to do the job, increased by much. This fact should make us reflect on how important it is to invest more on training system, which must prepare students to deal with the university, or let them enter the world of work with the specialized technical skills.
The relationship between school and work, which was to represent a breakthrough in our strong education system is managed very badly. Today, students in internships in most work for companies that participate in their training rather than exploiting them shamelessly for tasks that have very little training. On this we can act with an action that is primarily a complaint, to protect those still within the education system, was sent to prepare the coffee - also for free-a holding that it should contribute to its formation. The theme of a national status of students in internships, is long overdue.
The school should not be understood as a selection tool, but as a space where students can accumulate on all disciplines, with the help of a class teacher who does not treat them as users of a service, but help them find and create their own areas of interest. To implement this ambitious goal, that rhetoric can be expressed with ease, you need a totally new concept of teaching in high schools, starting from the realization full of school, trying to bring it to life not only with extra-curricular projects, utilities on, but enforcing it with a mechanism that is quite flexible for students who come out from the rigid system to try to meet as much as possible to the capabilities and interests of each student.
There is much to change here, but it must clarify our ideas, we must reflect on the way to school tomorrow, as seen from the left, making students feel really part of a community, creating a school that does not include all the political model of 6, but with the flexibility needed to meet the difficulties as to the quality, of each student.
The school that we are culturally distant from the vision of the right, which sees the school as a place where you can measure, in which the boys immigrants, even those born in Italy, but with a different skin color, should be made in separate classes.
true We believe in inclusion, not based on doing good penny, but based in accordance with the principle of a public school for all, giving the opportunity for foreign students to integrate fully in the training system, enabling him to have the same tools as those leaving a better condition financially and culturally, the only way to defeat the stupid and the prevailing fear of eternal stranger, the different.
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