By Fabio Massa
The Minister of Education Giuseppe Valditara has been attacking the “diploma factories” for some time, that is, those schools which – since the dawn of time, not since yesterday morning – serve to ensure that those idiots who they can’t do it alone, sweating and toiling like everyone else. Or rather, which are useful to those stupid parents who think that by paying for their children’s education they will prepare them for life, without understanding that they are only preparing them to cheat. So, the minister who started checks on 70 schools is very good. The problem is that out of these 70 schools, 47 have already started the revocation for equality. Let’s explain: obviously they are not state schools but private ones, which have obtained “parity”, i.e. the qualification to teach “as if” they were state, with the same legal value. If you read the agencies, there’s everything. Hotel schools without kitchens, schools with 90 percent of students living so far from school that attendance was impossible. Let’s draw some sums from this case. First: this minister has done something that no one has ever done before, and he deserves applause. Second: private schools, an old battle of Catholics, are a problem if left uncontrolled. It doesn’t matter where you go to school, whether private or public, but it really matters that the standard level is maintained. Third: Italians like to cheat. Always. But to prevent them from doing so, just intervene. From the diploma to the bar exam, we have tolerated too many loopholes over the years. Maybe it’s time to stop once and for all.
