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The political choice to open the school

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When the Prime Minister presented his government to Parliament, the mention that he made the duty to do everything necessary to promote human capital, education, school, university and culture in the best possible way, could seem something obligatory in the program framework of any government. Something that could not be missing and therefore remained of little significance, especially since the contingencies pushed attention towards the themes of health and economic emergencies. Yet, greater attention should have been paid to that passage (and to others that did not concern economics and health) and compare it with the insistence with which Mario Draghi was and still is often referred to as the “banker” or the “technician” of economics and finance. Thus suggesting that somehow he is out of place in the role of the Prime Minister, who, as the Constitution establishes, directs the general policy of the government and maintains its unity of political direction. With those labels we do not want to indicate the experience and high qualification in a specific sector, important but not exhaustive; on the other hand, he wants to reduce or impoverish his professional profile in the face of the more important quality that a “political” president would have. The latter character, without specifying, is assigned to those who have done an internship and then grew up in the life of political parties. What is not necessarily negative, but does not highlight the fundamental nature that political action should have and the “political” role of those who carry it out. It is about non-sectoriality, the completeness of consideration and knowledge of the needs of society, the long-term perspective, the attitude to the choices of priorities, the interest in the construction of one type of society and not another. .

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After the last press conference of the Prime Minister, it would be good to put an end to the misunderstanding (and falsification) and to consider that Mario Draghi is indeed a technician, in the sense that he knows what he is talking about when he deals with issues of economics and finance, but he is also a well-rounded politician. What is in fact, if not a fully and consciously political choice, the one that the Prime Minister illustrated and claimed in the press conference together with the Minister of Education, in favor of the reopening of schools according to the pre-established calendar? Certainly the terrain on which the government has moved is marked by the data of the epidemic, by the interpretations and forecasts (not univocal) given by the epidemiological experts, by the indications that come from the objective state in which the schools operate, and so on. But from all this there are no obligatory consequences; if anything, some contraindication or impediment to the adoption of one or the other solution among the various possible ones. And then, as is normal and good, political choices intervene. Which are certainly always questionable, but they are dutiful and legitimate when the competent authority assumes responsibility for them, not claiming to be purely and simply guided by the data of reality (indicated by the technicians). The government policy choice underlying the school-related measures is in favor of school and face-to-face teaching. The effect of the quality of education was also indicated on the entirely political level of the fight against social inequalities. Elsa Fornero illustrated in this newspaper the importance of education, at its various levels, underlining the value of the choice of school as a true strategic priority of the country. In the state of crisis in which we find ourselves, even on the economic level, with the different difficulties that the various social categories suffer, the choices could have been different or less explicit. It is therefore important that this is the one adopted. The consequences do not end in the short term and are not linked to the operational complexities of the school organization. The political direction adopted by the government – also recalling what the president said in Parliament when presenting the government – must be understood, greeted and monitored as a long-term commitment. Welcome political direction, which the end of the pandemic will allow to see unfolding in the administrative and financial commitment and also in the opening of the necessary preliminary debate to the expected reforms.

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