holidays are over and between few days with the school and will resume full activity of this blog. Meanwhile we want to highlight an excerpt from the article published on "The Daily Done" about the press conference made by Gelmini in response to the precarious workers who are doing a hunger strike in front of House. (click on post title for full article).
Education Minister Mariastella Gelmini has chosen this mode to "talk" to those who organized a sit-in protest in front of House. And here, as in many parts of Italy, there are also precarious they are doing the strike hunger. He tried to play attacking, then, the minister, explaining: "We understand the suffering of many teachers who have studied for a place that never were. But a situation inherited from previous governments, are the result of profligate policies. Today we hope that the 229 000 temporary workers who have served at least a year, and we can not expect to add 700,000 teachers currently employed. Our moral obligation is not to create more precarious. "
[...] And most importantly, to highlight the good work of the government on the school has listed a series of data to say the least surprising.
on cuts, first of all. By minimizing the number of jobs lost, balanced with the number of retirements. According to this calculation, over the past two years, already cut 77 000 jobs would be reduced to 12 000. A real game of the three tablets. A game that continues when the Minister said that this year "have been recovered 10 000 new jobs." But you forget to say how. And that is that, apart from the posts for support for people with disabilities imposed by a ruling of the Constitutional Court, most curricular hours are allocated "in pieces" that were organized into teaching themselves. Places, in short, that there were already and could not suppress.
Not to mention the full-time in elementary school, the Gelmini insists it has increased. But it continues to confuse the 40 hours per week with full time itself, which provides for the co-presences, ie the possibility to enrich the educational offer in order to take into account the needs of pupils with difficulties such as those of the most talented to be given tools cultural appropriate. I mean the opposite of the qualities that the minister has repeatedly claimed.