The controversy surrounding Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's proposal to limit the number of foreign students in Italian classrooms shows no sign of abating. the speech of the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella, who recalled that according to Article 34 of the Constitution, schools must be "inclusive and open to all", came the counter-reply from Meloni, who, as a guest of Bruno Vespa on Cinque Minuti on Rai1, harshly attacked the Quirinale: "I don't believe that the President of the Republic is afraid of ghetto classes, in the sense that I clearly read this interpretation of the words of the President of the Republic yesterday that they were words to contest the government's initiative".
Now, the ghetto is clearly much simpler if you take a foreign child who doesn't speak our language and put him in a classroom where the majority of students don't speak our language. This is the ghetto. Creating a more equitable distribution of classes, more balanced classes, serves precisely to prevent a ghetto. The President of the Republic talks about overcoming communication barriers, and what is the basis for overcoming communication barriers? It's language. So much so that we talk, precisely, about a better distribution of foreign children who don't speak our language. And, by the way, I mean, several newspapers wrote about it today, the President of the Republic when he was Minister of Education, he issued circulars that, more or less there too, urged not to group foreign students in the same class, but because it's a common sense measure. And therefore, I think it's right, common sense," the prime minister concluded.
“These are common sense rules that also serve a security purpose,” he added. “Similar measures that prohibit showing up with your face covered exist in half of Europe and in many Islamic states.” Giorgia Meloni on the proposed burqa ban in schools. “Many commentators in the Islamic world read this measure” which “has nothing to do with the extent of discrimination”.
