The return to class is traumatic: an additional problem for families, already stressed by the crisis
The Italians know it: the return from holidays is rather traumatic, with the conjunction between energy crisis and inflation, which will put many families in crisis. The perspective of a “Warm autumn” like those of the 70s it is far from remote. To aggravate the situation, seven and a half million families will have to deal with the return to school of their children which, again this year, will be a sort of via crucis. The underlying problem is always the same: teachers are lacking, despite the decrease in students (the decline is 100,000 units, mainly due to the demographic decline), the return to class of professors No Vax (about 4,000), le 60,000 new hires carried out in 2021, with seven competitions and an investment of 20 billion.
Yet the school continues to live in its endemic chaos, caused especially by territorial disparities. Lessons will start with no less than 150,000 alternatesin spite of educational continuity, especially those who need it most: two thirds of the provisional ones will be employed as support teachers. And these frail kids are also diagnosed with disability (the motor, attentional and behavioral ones are now sprouting like mushrooms), they also need it a dedicated educator.
Here the problem (which we have already dealt with in THIS ARTICLE) gets bigger, as explained by A., who carries out this profession in Milan: “I have never happened to start working in mid-September, together with the beginning of the lessons. Aside from the trouble this causes for us, this means the kids stay discovered until October / November, when the intervention hours are assigned. Generally not all together, but little by little, thus making it even more difficult to resume teaching after a three-month break ”.
A script that is repeated, unchanging, every year in this period, in the most total indifference of politics. Except that this year there are elections and in fact there has been talk of benefits for teachers: which is very right, but we hope that it will not remain a dead letter like the interventions on the school building stock to better deal with Covid.
Yes, because if we enter these painful notes we see that even on this we are still in February 2020, with the only difference that theobligation of masks. Much has been said and little has been done (the only one who at least tried, Lucia Azzolina, was overwhelmed by a frankly out of place irony). And then we start again as if nothing had happened and, also considering that more than half of the students between 5 and 11 years it is not vaccinatedthe philosophy is always that of the book, which later also became a film, about ungrouped schools: I hope that I manage.
PS: with regard to politics and elections, the importance of winning the vote of young people has also recently been underlined. Well, but maybe it might be useful to show a little more interest in the problems of young people, starting with school. Not taking care of it and then sending some kid on the list to pieces is a typical Italian solution …
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