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CASERTA DIOCESE – On Friday 10 May 2024, at 5.00 pm, a Study Seminar will be held on the theme “Educational pluralism is still a possible choice”, a theme that aims to shed light on the state of the art of the specific school sector both at a national and local level based on of broad statistical focuses and specific studies in recent years. It is a new attention that we want to reserve for private schools today, on the criterion that all the educational realities of the public system must be valorised.
The inter-diocesan meeting, which involves private schools, the Territorial School Office as well as sector associations, will take place in the Aula Magna of the Diocesan Library of Caserta.
Leading the meeting was Sister Anna Monia Alfieri, a well-known television personality, legal representative of the Italian Marcelline schools and member of the National School Council of the CEI, the Italian Episcopal Conference.
To introduce the work of the Seminar, in the presence of HE Monsignor Pietro Lagnese, Archbishop of Capua and Bishop of Caserta, prof. don Valentino Picazio, Director of the Pastoral Care for Education, School and University of the Diocese of Caserta from which the initiative coordinated by profs. Ernesto Genoni and Marcello Natale.
Affirming the right to freedom of educational choice means creating the conditions for the birth of more educational realities, more perspectives on reality.
The right to freedom of educational choice is a principle enshrined in national and international law and the Italian Constitution, in art. 30, – stating that it is the duty and right of parents to support, educate and educate their children – guarantees freedom of educational choice, which up to now has been ignored in practice.
To understand the situation facing private schools in Italy, here are some numbers from Sr. Anna Monia Alfieri’s in-depth focus. In 2007, in the national territory there were 13,252 private institutions with 1,245,346 students. In comparison, the data relating to the current school year tell us that the number of schools has dropped to 11,426 with 770,130 students.
In essence, 1,826 schools closed, with a loss of students amounting to 475,216 units, and this is not due to the demographic decline. Educational pluralism is, consequently, seriously compromised, especially in the South, where the percentage fluctuates between 4 and 10%..
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