CREMONA – «The 400 million euro Summer Plan is an impressive plan, never implemented before, for children who come from working families who perhaps cannot afford a house by the sea, a hotel in the mountains or other types of entertainment for their children »explained the Minister of Education and Merit, Giuseppe Valditaralaunching the proposal for schools to be open in the summer. The reaction from the school world was not long in coming.
«We are not Grest – he comments Barbara Azzaliprincipal of the Cremona comprehensive institute 4 —. Do we realize what it means to go to school in the summer, in classes that do not have air conditioning, with structures that are not adequate for teaching that must be different from the usual one? The school’s job is not to provide animation. In territories like ours there is a wide summer offer that comes from Grest and summer centres, with all due respect towards these initiatives. Then all this comes with Pnrr plans to be finalized, the end of the school year and increasingly reduced staff.”
Maria Giovanna Manziamanager of Cremona 1, has decided to organize the summer school even independently of the funds recently put out to tender, but using the Pnrr for stem and linguistic updating. «This year our summer school will be held at Campi and not at Trento Trieste, where the courtyard is unusable due to the gym construction site – He says -. We will do three one-week shifts in June to meet the families of the primary school children in our institute.”
Daniela Marzani has yet to analyze the circular in detail: «Now starting to organize the summer school seems really difficult to do due to the timing. But I will discuss it with the college and we will try to understand how to proceed.”
In principle the idea is good, but what is not convincing is the method, secondly Enrico Fasolidirector of the Spino d’Adda IC: «The idea may be acceptable, but the timing seems unrealistic to me and then we must take into account the offers of the territory and the role of the school. We will do something, perhaps in collaboration with local entities, but beyond funds and listening to the needs of our community.”
