VENICE – Serious inadequacies in the Greek test for 10 of the 14 third A graduates of classical high school by Foscarini. Boys who had passed the state exam with high marks, who aspired to finish their studies with high scores. Instead. The external Greek commissioner, arriving from Franchetti in Mestre, responsible for correcting the second test of the state exam, distributed a large number of insufficiencies. “Offensive”, “humiliating”, “unfair” grades, according to the students. And yesterday at the oral exam, in protest, a student gave up taking the test. Having already achieved a passing grade with the sum of the first two papers, you decided not to answer the commission’s questions for the third test. A striking choice that the girl explained to the commissioners as a sort of civil disobedience. She only asked to review her Greek homework and contested some passages of the teacher’s correction.
Previous tensions
A case that seems destined to have further developments. The same student, in agreement with her family, will request access to the documents to verify the correction. But other students and their families are also on the warpath. The common request is to take a look at the corrections, in view of future moves. A few years ago this teacher from Franchetti had already been assigned as an external commissioner of high school diploma at Foscarini and had had discussions with the internal commissioner of classics. The same one that this year follows the III A. A circumstance which, according to the boys, would have negatively influenced the work of the high school graduation commission.
The witness
«The external Greek commissioner had come into conflict with our Latin professor a few years ago – confirms the student who refused to take the oral exam yesterday – and she was unfair to us. She kept her grades very low, while in the other class she gave significantly higher scores.” The student tells of a classmate who showed up with a 7 and who in the Greek test had a score, translated into decimals, of 3.5. «I got a 6.5, but from the correction I made at home with my mother, who has a degree in ancient Greek, I knew I had made only one mistake. I don’t understand how you came to give me such a low score. I asked to review the assignment, at first they didn’t want to, but it was my right and in the end they had to show it to me. I disputed the errors that were pointed out to me. We will now request access to the documents.” For this student, who, due to her sporting merits, has already obtained a scholarship to enter an American college in September, a high score would have made the difference. «I could have aspired to further help based on scholastic merit, but that 6.5 in Greek lowered my average and I could no longer aspire, even with a perfect oral, to the necessary grade». And here, instead, is the choice to completely renounce the oral exam. «Given the injustice not only towards me, but also towards my companions, I decided to protest like this. Not feeling respected, I didn’t want to take the oral exam.”
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