Rather confusing and superficial, despite the usual eloquence and the inevitable slides, the presentation of the school bill made today by the Prime Minister. Evidently the subject is a bit difficult for him. Let's wait to read the text for a more precise evaluation.
However, we find the distance from what is contained in the Buona Scuola report significant: and thank goodness. The course correction on teachers' careers is evident. It is finally acknowledged that their salaries, already in serious difficulty today, cannot suffer further reductions, as would happen by modifying the progression by seniority, the only factor of defense of their purchasing power. We have been repeating it for months, it is good to finally see a minimum of listening.
On the hiring front, the cornerstone of the entire Buona Scuola project, we learn that the much-vaunted 150,000 hirings are reduced to about 100,000. Excluded from stabilization are the many precarious workers with years of service, but not present in the GAE. And this despite the obligations imposed by European legislation and the ruling of the Court of Justice.
Even more disturbing is the vagueness of the references to issues of extraordinary delicacy, such as the methods of hiring staff, their use and their evaluation, with a vision that is to say the least casual of the figure and role of the school principal; the school of autonomy certainly does not need mayoral principals, much less sole administrator principals, when the shared and participatory management of all the components that operate in the school community is decisive for the quality of the educational offer.
The endless succession, up to now, of announcements and postponements, also demonstrates the limits of a project driven by pharaonic ambitions but whose weakness of structure is increasingly evident. Also because in its development, despite the emphasis on online consultation, the involvement of the main actor of any process of true innovation, the professional body that must implement it, has been lacking. We have seen school workers kept on the margins and the ostentatious refusal of any consideration for their representatives.
In recent days, the world of education, in the RSU elections, has given a couple of unmistakable signals, participating in the vote in a percentage that is around 80% and crediting the trade unions that signed the national contract with a consensus that goes beyond the 92% of votes cast. A recovery of wisdom would advise the Prime Minister, abandoning decree-making ambitions, to finally open up to listening and comparing himself with a reality, that of those who work in schools, who have always been protagonists of real change, as well as daily committed to ensuring with their work the exercise of a fundamental right of citizenship.
