“The roof of the Viareggio scientific building collapses: near tragedy! So the local newspapers headline a story that is no longer news. Among the crumbling ceilings, roofs and walls we are witnessing a real dematerialisation of the school, ironically in line with the didactic dematerialisation desired by the School Plan 4.0″. The group does the talking Parents for a Di-Disconnected schooltrained in Lucca
“Promoted by Pnrr funds, the School Plan 4.0 has brought our flourishing schoolssubstantial funding aimed at carrying out the most urgent of maintenance: filling classrooms with screens and digital technology to make Italian schools competitive compared to the rest of the world. It makes you laugh if you look at the photo of the collapsed roof of the Viareggio high school, which has very little that is competitive. As a group of parents from Lucca, gathered for a “disconnected school” no more than a year ago we collected more than a thousand signatures in the hope that a dialogue could be opened with local institutions regarding the radical transformations imposed on public schools with the School Plan 4.0 therefore the funding given to schools is tied and channeled to hi-tech companies. If spending 4.9 billion euros on digitalisation can be justified in the name of competitiveness, the data on school learning linked to the digitalisation of schools are discouraging”.
“It makes you wonder if together with the roof falling down – the parents continue – it won’t go together our dignity as teachers, students and parents is also in pieces, which we consider innovative to cover a moldy or cracked wall with a digital whiteboard. Thus, in the claim of teaching our children respect for human life, we offer them schools that “verge on tragedy”, and which have very little respect for human life. Should we perhaps hope that the metaverse that they will wear in the classroom and that will make teaching more captivating and enveloping, will be able to cushion, with virtual reality, the pain of a tile on their head?”.
