the last mess of the Ministry of Education – Libero Quotidiano

The French teacher who has never studied French. The support teacher who has never worked with a disabled person. In Azzolina’s school, among benches on wheels, directors transformed into surveyors and phantom thermo-scanners, even this happens. Education Minister claims he jumped through the hoop to restart school on September 14, the truth is now we need a miracle to save our students from the consequences of their bad decisions. The latest mess comes from the provincial alternate rankings. Ministerial offices have little time to verify the authenticity of statements made under the responsibility of alternate candidates. The result is that between accidental mistakes and volunteers, we are faced with embarrassing situations like that of a French teacher who barely knows how to say “au revoir”.

Maybe you have a degree in Mandarin Chinese or Old Arabic, too bad they ask you to teach a language you don’t know. A group of teachers who are unprepared or unsuitable for the role are preparing to enter the classroom. As if the thousand unknowns linked to the evolution of the epidemic were not enough, now the specter of the appeals of precarious workers excluded from the rankings that will rain on the department of via Trastevere also hangs over the school year. Until the beginning of August, the school world was enveloped in a nebula that held families hostage to decisions that did not arrive. And they all clung to the Azzolina as if she were an oracle.

Then, as soon as he spoke, his arms, expectations, and more fell. September looked like a huge black hole. Now that school is guaranteed to start, it feels like walking on quicksand. And with each declaration of the minister one has the feeling of sinking. Families are concerned about how teaching will be guaranteed, for teacher preparation, for those good but “fragile” teachers who may not show up for the first day’s appointment. leaving the chair in the hands of who knows who. La Azzolina certainly pays for the thousand setbacks, the misplaced statements, the ideas that came to her head (see the Plexiglas boxes) and that she insisted on communicating without first counting to three. But then you change your mind. The last? Ban singing in the classroom. But how do you stop a four- or five-year-old from singing her favorite cartoon song? Azzolina has an (wrong) idea. But don’t give it too much weight. Anyway, it will change it.