In an attempt to reflect on ourselves and the type of society we are building we helped to create the series of meetings in Schio "Crossing the crisis."
The theme last Friday Italo Sciuto, a professor at the University of Verona, was "relate to others in times of crisis."
Nobody would say that these days then we can spend two hours listening to a passionate professor of Moral Philosophy ... yet it is so.
Two of the factors that the speaker identified as the cause of social crisis were individualism and the social and political disengagement. From this exhortation "Indignatevi" of a previous post.
We would then give you some tips for caring for the common good and to do something concrete:
read and reasoned (there's a comment in the post on Monday, which gives grounds for reflection for a week ...) ;
take pen and paper and have your say (below a letter that arrives at the other end of Italy. And thank goodness that Italy is united, and from Sicily the Veneto, there are people who share ideas and hard work);
make concrete gestures (the
petition to President Napolitano for school a few days and even online. In Schio is available until next week in print to Film Pasubio times in the film club and during the opening weekend).
We will meet tomorrow night to see if you can arrange something for March 12 in the area.
LETTER TO THE PRIME MINISTERS
Teachers of public schools, exercising their educational activity, carried out a public function. They are, in fact, part of that segment of the PA, which is the Department of Education, University and Research and, by their actions, contribute to achieving the tasks of the executive power which the Government owns.
then will understand the confusion generated by you, in those who have always thought to be a servant of the State, when acting in two different political conventions, has supported the concepts that are reported here:
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in public schools there are teachers who inculcate principles other than those that parents want to instill within their families;
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need to educate their children freely and therefore not to be forced to send them to a state school.
is absolutely necessary at this point, that you clarify what is the collective interest that the "school of the state" must achieved through the educational activity. This is necessary because the content of his statements, it appears that she is convinced that there are no shared principles and values \u200b\u200bwhich can be guided by an educational public see that teachers and parents united in that effort. If this were true, that is whether these shared educational values \u200b\u200bare missing, the only way out of public school would be to give each student the education of the families wanted: the Catholic son of a Catholic education, the child of a Muslim ' Koranic education, the liberal son of liberal education, the child of communist communist education; tolerant tolerant to the son of an education, the child of fundamentalist fundamentalist upbringing, the son of legalistic legalistic upbringing, the child of an education mafia mafia.
Result? A public school without their own educational project, without a role to play, perhaps not even a school.
It only remains to figure out what to do with all those educational activities that also promotes and supports the Ministry of Education: education in the legal, education for active citizenship education in respect and appreciation for differences, equality and so on.
I take this occasion to submit to its sensitivity to the precarious conditions in which the Italian public school facilities and resources. So perhaps better understand the views of those public school teachers to make up for many shortcomings state with a true spirit of sacrifice, voluntary work and a sense of belonging to a state that may already have long abandoned them.
the light of what I wrote, I beg you to reconsider its action. Keep in mind that we are at a historical moment in which the social status of our work is already very low.
Prof. Riccardo Ganazzoli
I.P.S.S.C.T. “L. Einaudi” di Palermo
