School, Righi high school students busy: “Enough, we’ll show what we need”

“We students of the Righi high school want to put an end to the interminable ‘we are all in the same boat’ and ‘we understand you’. We will show everyone what the school needs after years of mobilization, after having demonstrated countless times under the Ministry of education and having traveled the length and breadth of the streets of Rome “, write the students of the Righi high school, occupied since last night,” following a vote in which the majority of the votes were reached, together with 200 students of the Righi high school, we have decided to occupy our institute “. The revenge of the children starts from the school programs: “little in step with the times, what we learn at school does not adequately prepare us for life after high school. This is why we propose the enhancement of IT and Civic Education subjects. We are moving in this direction. through the project “Civic Re-Generation” which aims to establish a cycle of conferences held by university students in high schools and institutes. We also ask for the introduction of Environmental Education and Sexual Education and Affectivity as compulsory subjects. particular critical issues concerning the History program which to date does not include the events of the last seventy years, fundamental for the understanding of current reality “, we read. Then there is the school building theme: “In Italy there are 40 thousand school buildings, 70% of which were built in the first half of the twentieth century. Their management – depending on whether they are elementary, middle and high schools – is up to individuals municipalities and provinces. 38.8% of the national institutes require urgent extraordinary maintenance interventions to comply with the regulations and to eliminate risks. This need concerns the North for 28.8%, the Center for 41, 9%, the South for 44.8% and the islands for 70.9%. The lack of spaces leads to two main problems: the overpopulation in the classrooms; The lack of meeting spaces during the afternoon. chicken coop, we believe that the definition of the Ministry of Education is hypocritical, which sees classes made up of more than 28 children fall into the category. Last year, following a path of mobilizations, we highlighted possible spaces for carrying out the activities educational and social activities by occupying abandoned buildings, such as the former Skylight of the Sapienza University and the former Trastevere station “. The professor-student relationship is also under trial: “After a year and a half of the pandemic, we have resumed teaching in person at 100%, finding ourselves facing multiple gaps in our personal and school training. All this has shown the ineffectiveness and the slowness of frontal teaching, which does not go hand in hand with the evolution of the interests of young people – the boys of Righi denounce – This entails a distancing between the figure of the teacher and the student and a consequent loss of importance of the role of the school in life of a girl. The problem of “chicken coop classes” contributes to the phenomenon. In fact, a teacher who has to manage a very large class has difficulty in establishing an individual teaching relationship “. Solidarity, however, with professors and Ata staff to whom “for too long the teaching staff has not been recognized the right social value and their importance for the development of a conscious and democratic society. For this reason, we ask the MIUR for a clear revision of salaries, that allows a fair compensation with respect to the profession they carry out. We also ask that refresher courses be made compulsory and annual. Another problem that we want to highlight – they continue – is the precariousness of school collaborators, forced, not having regular schedules, to having to organize from week to week for often interregional movements. Although this problem does not affect us personally, in fact, we cannot deny our solidarity with workers with whom we are in contact every day and to whom we entrust the custody of our schools “. students of Righi look at the damage suffered on the psychological front: “All the problems we have exposed or in this statement they have caused enormous psychological damage, which has not yet been seriously addressed. We ask that various listening desks be set up, and that PDPs (Personalized Didactic Plan) be extended in all schools. We have seen how, after thirty years of funds cut off from school, the decline of the political class, and the lack of interest of citizens, our country has regressed instead of moving forward. The indifference that has struck our democratic state has led the students, who will have the duty to participate in civic and political life, to completely disinterested in these issues. We have therefore decided to occupy to recover our spaces in which we set ourselves the goal of proposing an alternative teaching model that empowers us and gives space to our critical conscience. The notions learned between the desks – the occupants conclude – must not be ends in themselves, but must be functional to a 360-degree growth of the individual, filling the shortcomings of traditional teaching “.