“We learn with dismay General Vannacci’s statements regarding the separation of disabled children and young people in schools: his is an idea of school and society that does not belong to us. It certainly does not belong even to the many teachers, school managers and school collaborators who, for decades, have worked with competence, professionalism and commitment for effective integration, implementing the principles established by our Constitution”. Thus Anna Cicognani, retired teacher , currently a volunteer in the trade union sector and candidate of the RinnoviAmo Forlì civic list.
“Vannacci’s discriminatory and insensitive words bring us back to concepts in vogue in periods that we would prefer to leave in the past – continues Cicognani -. Italian schools, with Law 517 of 1977, abolished differential classes, favoring the inclusion of students with disabilities in integrated classes, giving them the opportunity to grow in a country without ghettos, but full of solidarity. Perhaps those who speak like Vannacci should know the wonderful experiences we have in Italian schools and also in the schools of our municipality: he would certainly change his opinion. We hope that the lists allied at a local level with the League, the same one that nominated Vannacci in the European elections, dissociate themselves from these statements”.
“We are sincerely struck by the lightness with which these attempts to normalize the process of repulsion of those who are different are carried out – concludes the candidate for the City Council -. RinnoviAmo Forlì takes the side of the rights laboriously won over time and which have allowed numerous students with disabilities to compare themselves with their peers and, increasingly often, to emerge for their individual and unique qualities”.
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