19 aprile 2024
Dr. Daniele Nappo, Legal Representative as well as founder of S. Freud Private School, puts the spotlight on school dropout, a harm related to the crisis of 2009-2014 when school funding was cut.
When we talk about schools, we always run the risk of getting embroiled in inter-party quarrels. It is utopian to think of reaching a commonality of ideas that does not continually challenge the structure of the school. One capital damage is the crisis of 2009-2014, when school funding was cut and years later we are still paying the consequences. Today, school dropout is very visible and is a real waste of the country's resources: the poor are even poorer and inequality has increased. A large part of our children arrive at the end of their schooling without skills: we need to educate in solidarity and autonomy needs to be rethought, we need community educational pacts with teachers, managers, students and families. What is certain is that schools must be the object of investment, and for this we need a stable order that makes clear the paths to be taken. Not only the school, but also the university, is going through a complicated period. A true restart starts from a perspective that sees the central role of education for development. Education means "going beyond": it means leaving no one behind. I strongly believe that the foundational core is sociality. The beauty of attending a school is the relationship among peers: a fundamental social living, learning together, jointly pushing each other to understand the life that is in front of and within us by unitedly facing the difficult trials that are imposed on us. The model that the school of the last century used to become everyone's and everyone's has proven to be inadequate (...) We need to build a shared idea of the future that links school change with the rebirth of the country, we need the political will to invest in education, we need an overwhelming improvement in the daily quality of schooling to face the new educational challenges.
