The general’s exit with a straight leg Roberto Vannacci on the opportunity to create separate classes with students who have learning problems, forced more than one representative of the Meloni government to distance themselves from it: one of the first was the owner of Economy, Giancarlo Giorgettiwho pointed out that Vannacci is not from the League and also that he does not share its positions.
Even the minister Giuseppe Valditara has decided to come out into the open, recalling how much good the Northern League party has done in the past year and a half of Government, precisely with the professor of Roman Law at the top: from the League, the Minister of Education and Merit announced, they have arrived “concrete policies in favor of the inclusion of students with disabilities“.
Therefore, Valditara, without making any reference to the words of the general, fresh from candidacy with the League in the European elections, decided to publish the long list of measures taken during his mandate in Viale Trasteverebut also indirectly, in his own way, distancing himself from Vannacci.
He spoke of the over “13 thousand support teachers hired in September” of the “significant hirings planned for the next few years”, such as “the Pnrr resources for construction intended for the redevelopment of schools for the removal of architectural barriers”, “of the ‘obligation for support teachers hired on a permanent basis to remain in the chair for three years’.
As well as the “possibility for families to ask that temporary support teachers also remain for three years to support the student with disabilities to ensure continuity in support”, of the 25 million euros “for the use of artificial intelligence to support of students with disabilities” and of the 70 million allocated to “private schools aimed at transporting students with disabilities”.
Valditara’s clarification, preceded by clarifications from politicians from the government parties and also supported by more moderate exponents, such as Italia Viva, was in the air after even the world of education pointed the finger at the general imposition (it also seems to Lega) by the vice-premier Matteo Salvini.
Moreover, all the most modern and advanced pedagogical and teaching studies indicate how beneficial it is for all students, disabled and able-bodied, to live their school experiences in the same classroom. With the teacher skillfully managing everything, focusing on personalization of learning.
“General Vannacci – he pointed out Ivana Barbacci, leader of the CISL Scuolaalso recalling these studies – has an idea of school and society that is exactly the opposite of ours, but this is not what matters: it matters that it denies the best things that schools and society have done for decades, trying to give concrete and coherent implementation to the principles of our Constitution. It is certainly not with these characters that Italy will be able to aspire to a leading role in Europe”, commented the general secretary, making it clear how inappropriate her Northern League candidacy may have been.
Shortly before, it had also been very hard M5swho with a note defined “Roberto Vannacci’s words on separate classes for disabled students are delusional, extremely dangerous or offensive for thousands of families“, because the Northern League candidate would have “propagated an inhuman ghettoization of children, in contrast with the deepest values of our Constitution and with the United Nations Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities, which commits to equal participation of persons with disabilities in society, obviously including schools”.
“What do the Northern League ministers for disability and education Alessandra Locatelli and Giuseppe Valditara think? Will they defend the Italian public schools and disabled students from Vannacci’s delusions or will they endorse with their silence an idea that takes us back to the darkest and most terrible years of the last century?”, the grillini then asked.
This is why “very appropriately Minister Valditara recalled the commitment of the Italian school system on the basis of the provisions of the Constitution, the commitment to promote the full inclusion of disabled children”, he commented in the evening Mario Rusconi, president of the ANP Rome.
“In Italian schools, the commitment of teachers from this point of view has always been very active, continued Rusconi, explaining that “improvements can be made by increasingly specializing support teachersbut thinking of returning to the old infamous differential classes does not help the effort that the whole school is making towards the inclusion of disabled children and the inclusion of all those pupils who also have behavioral difficulties”.
Shortly before also the national president of the ANP, Antonello Giannellihe made a point of saying that “the disabled person in the classroom is a resource because others can also understand how diverse humanity is. From a pedagogical point of view it serves to show that the values of coexistence and solidarity can be put into practice. It promotes growth and development from an ethical and content point of view.”
Instead, Giannelli pointed out, “separation based on a physical condition is discriminatory: the Constitution, the laws, the circulars say so. Inclusion is implemented at the highest possible levels in the school.”
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