"Good school" isn't exactly a good idea... This is why a joint demonstration of the school unions will be held in Ferrara on the 17th to raise awareness of the effects (and, unfortunately, the limitations) of this reform. The following day, Saturday the 18th, the meeting will take place in Rome for the national demonstration, also joint. Anyone interested in joining can contact the CISL Scuola Ferrara secretary, Alessandra Zangherati, at +39 348 8701069.
The text of the letter signed by the national secretariats of the school unions is reported below.
SCHOOL RSU IN THE SQUARE TO CHANGE THE GOVERNMENT'S PROPOSALS
To all workers elected to the school RSU
Dear colleague,
The government has implemented its proposals for reforming the education system without truly engaging those who live and work in schools every day. This is a grossly presumptuous approach, which has resulted in a project that primarily generates doubts and dissent within the school system. This project often proves artificial, flawed, completely disconnected from the concrete experience of real schools, and poorly supported even by references to the most accredited pedagogical and didactic approaches.
The government decided it could do without all of this, launching its guidelines in September, which have now been incorporated—albeit with a casual change of form—in the bill submitted to Parliament. In the midst of this, a superficial consultation was held, with discussion space severely limited, reduced to the mere minutes allotted during the ministerial pilgrimages to the local areas. Neither the country nor the professional community were truly involved in sharing a project for change that is so far removed from the expectations and real needs of our schools. Meanwhile, the contract freeze once again postpones, and effectively contradicts, the commitment to restoring dignity and value to staff work.
With the mobilization that began in March, which has already seen the implementation of—in addition to the non-mandatory strike from April 9th to 18th—many significant actions at the local and national levels, the trade unions representing the education sector have set specific goals of amending the measure under discussion in Parliament through appropriate amendments, calling on political forces to discuss and make coherent decisions. This is the meaning and purpose of the demonstration held on March 25th, in which representatives of the parliamentary groups were invited to participate and spoke, discussing the proposals jointly presented by the unions.
Now is the time for the school workforce to make its voice heard directly, through those recently appointed to a union representation role, supported and legitimized by the vote of the entire sector. This is why the protagonists of the demonstration called for April 18th in Rome must be you, workers elected to the RSU of our schools.
The people elected on the lists submitted by Flc CGIL, CISL Scuola, UIL Scuola, SNALS Confsal, and Gilda FGU represent more than 90% of RSU members, and were elected in a consultation in which 80% of eligible workers participated. This unequivocal and indisputable fact allows us to rightfully say that the Italian school system will be present there, with its challenges and problems, but above all with its experience, expertise, and passion.
The meeting is at 10:30 a.m. in Piazza SS. Apostoli in Rome. We're counting on your attendance and therefore invite you to contact your local organization for the necessary logistical and organizational arrangements.
Thank you and see you in Piazza Santi Apostoli!
