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“The problem now is no longer whether or not to reopen the school this morning, January 7, but to rediscover the meaning of an institution.” So says Andrea Bevacqua, a teacher from Calabria and co-author of the book “Registro (s) connected”, a title that deliberately recalls the critical issues of distance learning. And it is the title of the first book about dad, and written together with Alessandro Sebastiano Citro and Giorgio, for the publishing house Edizioni Dignità del Lavoro, with a foreword by the writer Christian Raimo.
“It’s clear,” Bevacqua explains now, “that we need a compass more than any other instrument. An entire society needs to understand what is being sacrificed in these months of pandemic. Getting away with the usual rhetoric of School and Basic and Basic Education for a civilized and democratic country now does not help and runs the risk of dragging the substantial debate into the usual confusion of words between opposing factions. “It is necessary to recover a vision of meaning , a perspective, “to trace a path today more lost and buried by tons of bushes and brambles.”
It is one of the most difficult missions that the School awaits from its creation until today, insists Bevacqua. “Perhaps like the world conflicts and the fight against the high illiteracy rate. The pandemic has highlighted all the existing fissures as it has happened for other sectors of well-being, Health in the head.
After all, the Pope reminded us that we are a sick society that thought it was indestructible. As for the School, no one thought it was healthy, but today the situation has sunk into an abyss from which no one can get out and find solutions. It would require a policy with a capital p capable of looking further but obviously it is asking too much ”.
Instead, the debate focuses on opening a yes or opening a no: “But this is just a false problem or in any case badly faced, Bevacqua continues. “There is a security problem that does not seem to concern the school sector. Teachers and administrators do not seem to be affected by a government that even schedules the vaccine as of April.
This means that the School, attendance rates aside, could also reopen on January 7 but as it happened in October it will close as a patch the next day. It is equally evident that parents are divided between those who almost deny the brutality of the virus and who, instead, argue that we should stay home until it is all over. However, the basic issue is not to think of ourselves as a single body made up of principals, administrators, teachers, parents, and students. Not being able to express oneself with a vision that tries to go beyond the inevitable clash and debate about closing and opening is a symptom of the absence of the compass. We need to open a debate that knows how to dig the cracks, destroy even if necessary and then rebuild in perspective. If the School has continued in recent months, it has done so thanks to the teachers and their good will. To that of parents and children too. To the enlightened executives who have reinvented themselves. But now this is no longer enough. The whole context crumbles day after day in front of our monitors.
Rather than extinguish the School, it seems to have become a ghost. One gives the impression of witnessing the destruction of a building with the same sense of helplessness that one feels in the face of the attack on the Twin Towers. When the monitors are closed, I seem to feel a mixed sensation of resignation and inability to react. The constant relationship that is created with our students, for the youngest even with their parents, represents a high relationship from a quantitative point of view. Now we must focus on quality. In some more virtuous municipalities, educational pacts have been signed between institutions, schools, parents, students and associations. One way to try to restart after the pandemic. A way of being there, of committing ourselves, of saying: we have something to start with, something written to start again ”.
The compass can point in this direction. “The compass – continues the professor – does not actually indicate a return to normality but a change of course. In fact, starting over does not mean continuing on the same path but rather opening new paths. On this, however, now more than ever we need politics. On the one hand, relaunch a structural investment plan in buildings and their security, strategically approach and plan a hiring plan; on the other hand, raise the quality of the socio-educational context by committing all subjects of the territories to enter into educational pacts. In short, it is necessary to relive the School now in a virtual way and in a short time in presence again.
When Minister Profumo spoke about the central schools in the area a few years ago, he probably framed the issue. But the words were not followed by the deeds. To make a school an axis of the territory, investments and a great capacity for cohesion are needed and this cannot be left to the general will of some virtuous associations. We have to start from here with the compass in hand. In this the teachers will have to play a fundamental role and it cannot be otherwise. Avoid looking at the rubble, find a meaning now, start over in other directions ”.
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