The meeting of over 200 managers of nursery and nursery schools belonging to Fism took place on 24 April in the auditorium of the Province of Treviso (the Treviso federation is the most representative of the Veneto in terms of number of members). Before the approval of the 2023 budget (closed with a slight profit of just over 14 thousand euros), president Simonetta Rubinato reeled off, in the presence of the regional president Stefano Cecchin, the numbers of the activity carried out in favor of the over 15 thousand children, from 0 to 6 years old, attending associated facilities. Starting from teacher training (almost 10 thousand hours offered during the year), up to the numerous initiatives aimed at families, among these the next meetings scheduled for 3 and 4 May in Conegliano and Quinto, with professor Monica Amadini , to promote and enhance the development of the educational skills of parents and grandparents (with the contribution of Banca delle Terre Venete). And then the consultancy offered to associated managers for the renewal of agreements with the Municipalities (91 schools involved).
“If we closed the balance sheet with a slight profit, it is due to the fact that, starting from the presidency, there are people here who volunteer thousands of hours a year to keep things running. Which is the same reason why – explained Simonetta Rubinato – our nursery schools and nursery schools are able to offer families an educational service of the highest level, saving the State over 67 million euros a year and the Municipalities around 8 and a half million euros. We perform a public service, on a par with state and municipal schools, but our children, families and staff in our community schools continue to be the subject of blatant discrimination.”
For the Treviso Fism the objective is the Trento model, a province in which the percentage of children enrolled in equal childhood is in line with that of Treviso. “Except that in Trento, thanks to the funding of the autonomous Province, the private schools receive a whopping 60 million euros more than ours, with an annual funding of 9 thousand euros per Trentino child, compared to the approximately 1,045 euros they benefit from his peer from Treviso. If the system still holds up today it is thanks to the fees paid by families and the contribution of volunteers, donations and fundraising guaranteed by the managers of our schools” the Fism president pointed out, announcing that the results of the research commissioned on the theme to the prof. Alessandro Rosina.
The educational service offered by the over 200 nursery schools and nurseries associated with Fism Treviso must also deal with the decline in the birth rate which in just 5 years (from the 2021/2022 to the 2025/2026 school year) will cause 2,392 to disappear children, equal to approximately 104 sections. The proposals to resolve this hidden inequality exist, “starting from recognizing Veneto’s primary legislative competence in the field of an integrated system for 0-6 years with adequate resources, finally overcoming the historical expenditure which has allowed the State to date to “save “over 400 million a year paid by our families, forced to pay a fee for their children to attend nursery school because here the virtuous and far-sighted local communities built nursery schools well before the State did so” concluded Simonetta Rubinato who then announced the online launch of the new Fism Treviso website.
