The National Association "For the School of the Republic" considers serious and disarming the words with which the prime minister Silvio Berlusconi wanted to tarnish the public school of the state and teachers' work in it work hard everyday browsing of sight between the cuts and job insecurity.
serious since Silvio Berlusconi has publicly demonstrated to ignore the role of schools of the State which is the main instrument through which the Republic responded to the task entrusted to dal'art .. 3 of the Constitution: to remove obstacles to citizenship
Indeed, it has among its priorities for the removal of economic and social inequality, and promote respect for diversity of cultures that that finds its unfolding in the freedom of teaching teachers and comparing respectful of cultural heritage each of which carries
This its educational function, established in Article .33 of the Constitution, should be understood, valued and defense primarily by those who have sworn allegiance to the Constitution and has the task of guiding the Government: therefore such a serious gap in the political conception of those who hold this
constitutional position of a democratic country.
Releasing the words are used, they reveal an instrumental use of concepts that are well know yet rooted in a wide section of society: the reference to "family" would not see their children educated in public schools according to their principles, (assuming that "all families" profess the same principles) put into crisis by the teachers "communists" by appealing to values \u200b\u200b "traditional" reassuring. "
It 'clear that everything is sacrificed to the quest for consensus, including the value of the School of the State, which seeks the formation of a critical spirit, the acquisition of freedom of conscience, of educating their younger generations sharing of citizenship, outside the closed circles of family .
Disarming that echoes the minister Gelmini, working every day to "decomunistizzare" the School of the State and to carry out the plan of de-power the state school system and to promote educational confessionalisation encouraging the Catholic school.
judges, teachers, students, all "communists" by the mere fact of fighting for the implementation of constitutional principles, as well as justice in the school!
hope that the school environment, in constant mobilization in recent years in an attempt to defend the democratic and educational achievements attained over decades, in the presence of arrogant, direct attacks on the principle of the School State, had never before been encountered so far, will be able to raise their voices high and show the spirit of unity must for
reverse the course of a shift that seems unstoppable.
