Rome, 25/06/2020. Today, hundreds of people, led by "Priorià Alla Scuola" (1.) and supported by trade unions and other organizations, gathered in Piazza San Silvestro, near the Parliament, to call the Italian Government to massively invest in Public Education and implement policies - post Covid-19/Coronavirus emergency - allowing Public Schools to restart in September without the use of distance education. From the Organisers Facebook event page (2.): «[…] The school community needs to start in September "in Presenza" [as always with class and face-to-face lessons, and not via web/online education/online learning/distance education, ndr] : girls, boys, young people, teachers, workers, families have endured for three months - materially and psychologically - to face an emergency. After this huge collective effort and when all the productive activities of the country have already restarted, it is time to say enough: the school community needs to start again in September "in Presenza" because without school there is no politics, there is no justice, there is no equality, there is no growth - neither human nor economic. [Protesters] Requests: 1. extraordinary resources; 2. teaching staff and ATA appropriate to the needs of the school; 3. hiring all precarious teachers from the provincial rankings; 4. Municipalities and Provinces find spaces for all schools of all levels; 5. structural investments for school buildings; 6. health prevention in schools. [Protesters] Rejects: 1. the reduction of school time; 2. outsourcing (all precarious work) to complete school time; 3. the 40 min hours; 4. DAD as a structural part of the school timetable. Education is a right […]». The demo was held contemporary in at least other 56 squares across Italy.<br />
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Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. http://bit.do/fGcqz<br />
2. http://bit.do/fGcqw<br />
Other Public Education related demos I recently covered: http://bit.do/fGcwm & http://bit.do/fGcwq