ROME. “It took ten years of battles to get to the school-work alternation. Unfortunately, however, Italy is a “contemporary” country: it suddenly notices something, turns on a spotlight on a dramatic episode such as a road accident and destroys everything good that has been built “, she says to the Stampa.it the sociologist Giuseppe Roma, founder and general secretary of RUR -Rete Urbana delle rappresentanza, for many years director general of Censis: “This student mobilization is the result of a disjointed education”. Rome adds: «The boys who took to the streets express pre-political needs as in the student demonstrations of 68. Various factors are intertwined in the ongoing demonstrations. In other words, the current situation of the Covid two-year period is an inveterate underestimation of the centrality of the training system. In the United States, the organization of the life of millions of children is strictly structured on the stages of school. From kindergarten to graduation, the school accompanies everyone with rituals, dates, certain stages in the most delicate moments of their growth. In Italy, on the other hand, the formula of the working world of adults has been applied to institutions. From the “factory councils” we passed to the “class councils”, reproducing the same mechanisms. By involving parents with negative effects. So now the families have recourse to the TAR if the child is rejected ».
Disorientation
Rome underlines: «The school should be an agency for the formation of young people and instead liturgies and traditions are not respected. The rules of examinations are changed more often than the electoral law. Every year in Italy the Maturity changes and this causes a disorientation to which the pandemic is added to act as detonators on previous evils ».
Alternation
Rome continues: «The school-work alternation was a great achievement. There have been some dramatic incidents, but this also happens to those who at 15 already work without studying anymore. Training is a tool for promoting employment. In the motor valley in Emilia, in international companies such as Lamborghini and Ducati, I saw classrooms for students inside the sheds and the boys were delighted to learn a trade ».
No to violence
Highlight to Stampa.it the political scientist Ferdinando Adornato: «Various contributing causes can be found in these street protests. First of all, the discomfort of one or more generations. And unfortunately there is still a need to repeat that things are not achieved by violence. There is a general malaise because the school does not work. The time machine, that is the projection into the future, has jammed. And there is no adequate awareness of this in the ruling class. We need to change pace. We need a national event to mark an awareness. It is necessary to convene the General States of the school to reflect and act in a non-episodic way on education. We must take advantage of the PNRR and the presence of Mario Draghi at Palazzo Chigi to proceed with a rewrite of the educational pact. Current reforms are not enough, we need to put school at the center. The boys do what they can, but it is not enough to ask for the replacement of a minister. As always, then, there are those who exploit the demonstrations to create unrest ». Adornato concludes: «The school-work alternation was a step forward for the school. In the square there is confusion and in a babel of languages there is a risk of partial readings of the situation between wrong slogans and errors of evaluation ».