Representatives of the minority council groups met this morning in the Sant’Eurosia district, in front of the green area on which a new nursery school should be built by March 2025 – as the construction site sign states. The structure will be able to accommodate 80 children.
“With the one in Parma Mia, there will be 160 places in total,” he observes Priamo Bocchi, councilor of Fratelli d’Italia, recalling the other kindergarten soon to be built. “Besides, they will be ready in two years. They are absolutely insufficient to deal with the serious problem of waiting lists. A late, partial and unsatisfactory response.”
In Reggio Emilia, “a municipality with a population only slightly smaller” than Parma, Bocchi reports, there would be “only 168 children on the waiting list for a place in nursery school”. For the councilor, the policies of the Educational Services sector are “prisoners of an ideological approach”.
The League councilor also has a similar opinion Laura Cavandoli: “The Municipality of Parma gave no answers, it even gave falsified numbers: they are not comparable to those of last year, because it removed non-residents”. Cavandoli continues: “This kindergarten was supposed to be ready in March 2025, but instead it will end at the end of Pnrr, so we will have it between 2026-2027. Instead, the contribution for nursery schools, the so-called INPS bonus – not really known to councilor Bonetti – has provided great resources. Families need to have answers, certainties.”
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“It seems to us that the data is really very similar to last year,” he adds Serena Brandini, councilor of Action, “so we can’t understand the tone. As if a success had arrived, a real reduction in waiting lists, which didn’t happen. We ask the Administration to let us have it if there is data other than what we have seen.”
Maria Federica Ubaldicouncilor of Civiltà Parmigiana, reiterates the need for structural interventions, not only intended to stem the emergency: “The actions undertaken so far are few: one of these is that on the agreements, which however has been implemented exclusively on the part relating to the schools of the ‘childhood”.
“I was very struck by this triumphalism,” observes the councilor and former mayor Pietro Vignali, “in the face of fluctuations that also derive from slight and physiological ups and downs. These are numbers that photograph a very critical situation because such a high waiting list – we are also a municipality with one of the highest fees in the Region – is an open wound for the city”.
The councilors’ criticisms come after the publication of the rankings for nursery schools and nursery schools for the next school year, accompanied by the positive comment from the municipal administration. The data speak of an overall coverage of 61.3%, of which 43% covered by public places, compared to 56.2% the previous year.
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The councilor for Educational Services Caterina Bonetti had declared in recent days: “As educational services we constantly work towards the objective of reducing waiting lists and to guarantee broad and fair accessibility to educational services. The process of establishing an agreement with private schools represented an important commitment for the Administration, just as the interventions for the construction of new nursery facilities are important.”
Martina Alfieri
