School, Kaladich (Fidae): “If the state is equal to Serie B, it is in ‘promotion'”

“If the state school is second-class, the paritaria is in promotion”. Virginia Kaladich, unanimously re-elected national president of Fidae (Federation of Educational Institutes), at the end of the Congress held in Rome from 24 to 27 November, uses a football metaphor to ‘summarize’ the challenge awaiting peer schools and programmatic guidelines of his third term. A third mandate “in continuity with the past, keeping listening and closeness to our schools at 360 degrees”. The Pandemic, Kaladich explains to Adnkronos “has confronted us with new challenges, and the school has shown in a new and unique way its ability to listen and to offer answers, it has helped its students not only to continue the program, but to read what is happening and has led us to give concrete answers today in order to strengthen the few resources we have, creating networks, teaming up “.” We will continue to speak with the Government and the Ministry, the ecclesial world to reach finally a real equality and finally giving full citizenship to the integrated public system. Since 2000 the law of equality has remained, in fact, ‘unfinished’ “. The problem of resources for peers is in fact a still open chapter and channels have been opened to find a barrier with the Erasmus program, a consortium has been created in which 50 schools have already joined, exchange programs have also been implemented for primary students . “We are convinced – continues Kaladich – that school is the place where children can grow, but to grow well, the whole village is needed. Instructing to educate – he highlights – is an art and art needs of resources. Italy – he complains – spends little on education and, if the state school is second class, the equal school can be defined as ‘in promotion’. The challenge remains to understand that schooling is an investment for the future and the future of school begins today. I’m not just talking about us – he says – the whole school needs dignity, to be there. Either we invest or we play to lose “. “We are facing important challenges – she concludes – and I am sure that all together, schools, teachers, institutions, school staff, if we help each other, walking together we can really transform our school, making it a better place to take care and accompany our children, preparing them for life. School is one of the few places where you can meet young people and listen to them: rooted in the past we want to look with hope to the future, to the future of the new generations “.