Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini intervenes on the case of the Pioltello school and sees the closure of the school for the end of Ramandan as “a setback” and at the same time, guest at Door to door on Rai1, proposes the maximum quota of “20% of foreign children in a class”. Words that come after the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, had expressed appreciation for the work “that the teaching staff and the institute bodies carry out in fulfilling a precious and particularly demanding task”. In fact, Salvini’s thinking diverges from that of Mattarella. “I don’t think that in any Islamic country they close for Easter or Christmas – says the deputy prime minister – Until Islam gives itself a structure and recognizes equality between men and women, closing schools seems to me to be a bad sign. It is a sign of surrender and retreat to close for Ramadan.”
The proposal
Salvini then relaunches a proposal: that of a cap on foreign students in the classroom, already put forward years ago, after the case of a Roman school, Pisacane, where entire classes were mainly made up of immigrant children or children of immigrants. “If you have many children who speak different languages and don’t speak Italian it’s chaos. You have to check the presence of children. 20% of foreign children in a class is also stimulating but when Italians make up 20% of the children in the class , how does a teacher explain?”, asks the minister. Meanwhile, in Pioltello the controversy continues. The parents of the students of the Iqbal Masih Comprehensive Institute, which ended up at the center of controversy after the decision to close on April 10th on the day Ramadan ended, are divided between those who see the decision as a sign of integration and those who do not agree with the choice.
