School, the photo of Genoa. “Students without a desk write on their knees” – Chronicle

Genoa, September 14, 2020 – Controversy arises around the photo of the little students in one Genoa School, which went viral on social media. In the day of restart of the Italian school, the governor of Liguria Giovanni toti attacks the Minister of Education Lucia azzolina. She does this by posting an image on her profile. Facebook, where do you see boys and girls from a class kneeling on the floor using chairs as desks. “Dear Azzolina, these are the students of a Genoese class who write on their knees because they don’t have the desks you promised – writes the Ligurian governor Toti on his Facebook page -. And they would not be the only ones. Our children, teachers and families do not deserve this treatment, especially after the sacrifices made in recent months in which it was also a moral duty to work to avoid all this ”. “I find it unacceptable – Toti concludes in the final part of the post – and I am already writing a letter to the school management to intervene immediately. An image like this is not worthy of a civilized country like Italy ”.

Nearby, the replica of the Dean of the Castelletto Institute, Renzo Ronconi. “ME desks, ordered well in advance, will arrive morning in the afternoon and on the first day of school, which was a day of celebration, we simply avoided putting the old ones back on, “says the manager.” The photo – explains the director – shows children who, during a didactic activity, are drawing serenely in freedom: naivety on the part of the teacher to make it work, but wrong and seriously exploiting it, exploiting, with it, especially the children ”.