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There Diocese of Caserta promotes a study seminar on the theme “Educational pluralism is still a possible choice” to be held Friday 10 May 2024 at 5.00 pmin the Aula Magna of the Diocesan Library of Caserta with Sister Anna Monia Alfieri.
The event aims to shed light on the current state of school system both at a national and local level, based on in-depth statistical and specific studies of recent years. The initiative intends to draw attention to private schoolsbased on the assumption that all educational realities of the public system deserve attention.
The meeting is in character interdiocesanin fact, involves private school institutes, the Territorial School Office as well as sector associations.
Leading the meeting Sister Anna Monia Alfieriwell-known television personality, legal representative of the Italian Marcelline schools and member of the National School Council of the CEI, the Italian Episcopal Conference.
To introduce the work of the Seminar, in the presence of SE Monsignor Pietro LagneseArchbishop of Capua and Bishop of Caserta, the prof. Don Valentino PicazioDirector of Pastoral Care for Education, School and University of the Diocese of Caserta from which the initiative coordinated by profs. Ernesto Genoni And Marcello Natale.
Affirm the right to freedom of educational choice it means creating the conditions for the birth of more educational realities, therefore, more perspectives on reality. The right to freedom of educational choice is a principle enshrined in national and international law and the Italian Constitution, in art. 30, – stating that it is the duty and right of parents to support, educate and educate their children – guarantees freedom of educational choice, which up to now has been ignored in practice.
To understand the situation faced by private schools in Italyhere are some numbers from Sr Anna Monia Alfieri’s in-depth focus:
In 2007, in the national territory there were 13,252 private institutions with 1,245,346 students. In comparison, the data relating to the current school year tell us that the number of schools has dropped to 11,426 with 770,130 students.
In essence, 1,826 schools closed, with a loss of students amounting to 475,216 units, and this is not due to the demographic decline. Educational pluralism is, consequently, seriously compromised, especially in the South, where the percentage fluctuates between 4 and 10%.
