Monza – Exam time also at Provincial center adult learning, with headquarters in Piazza Cambiaghi in Monza, which includes the other four branches of Desio, Arcore, Albiate plus the Scuola in Prison. I am the schools of the last, those that life seems to have taken elsewhere or those who arrive from distant countries with completed or unfinished study courses, but in any case not equivalent to the Italian ones.
THE Cpia offer early literacy courses, annual courses of 400 hours for the eighth grade diploma (of which 150 paid by the company, for those who work) and annual courses of 850 hours for the two-year period of high school. They are taking place these days eighth grade exams for 145 students across the 5 complexes, as explained by the representative of the Monza complex Anna Agnelli, and 25 others in prison. The teacher of Italian, history and geography follows them closely Giovanna Canzi.
Meet a population of unemployed, migrants from South America, Africa and the Philippines, pensioners and workers who have been marginalized by the world of work because they are no longer up to date. They are also young people aged 18 and over, with few 16 year olds. Everyone has one goal: build a better future. “Only in Monza – says Professor Canzi – I have 30 students, all admitted to the exam. Others passed in the February session. There was a young graduate in Brazil who took the short route to get their third grade diploma.”
The writings follow the Italian program with argumentative, descriptive text and understanding of a newspaper article. In the tracks everyone expresses their own work experience, the story of journeys of hope and life experiences. In these days at the oral exam they report their scholastic journey and their satisfaction with what they learned and how they felt welcomed. “People from Bangladesh meet friends from Nigeria or Peru – says the teacher – this is also integration. For them the Cpia is the last opportunity for change“. The Cpia also offers two-year high school courses. Already 19 have passed the suitability exam and then enrolled at Itis Floriani, Meroni, Ferrari or Nanni Valentini to reach high school diploma. They arrive as nomads , and boys who arrived in Italy on boats.
Third grade exams even in prison. “At the prison in via San Quirico – explains the principal of Cpia Claudio Meneghini – out of 800 inmates, around 40 people graduate each year”. They are often the most motivated, because for them it is truly the very last opportunity to study. For everyone, history takes on the thousand colors of the world. And they tell the geography.
