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Cassese puts the school on trial: who really needs it? To students or teachers? We spend a lot but with disappointing results

As international surveys on the unpreparedness of students also reveal, Italian schools are not up to the standard of a modern society because they are thought of as a "tool for solving employment problems" of teachers rather than asking what education is really needed by students in a changing world

Cassese puts the school on trial: who really needs it? To students or teachers? We spend a lot but with disappointing results

Who really needs it school Italian? Garlic and students or ai teachers? This is what is asked in an extensive analysis in Corriere della Sera Sabino Cassese, the prince of Italian jurists, whose answer is obvious. We spend a lot but as it is the Italian school system is not working. “Despite the high number of teachers (Editor's note: 700 thousand permanent teachers, 170 thousand annual substitute teachers and an unknown number of temporary workers), the Italian school system has a low performance and is a factor in the country's low productivity. Half of the students leave school unprepared and dropouts are very high." Cassese goes to the heart of the problems and argues that "the ministry and the entire school are too busy managing personnel rather than educating" because they see school as a "tool for solving employment problems" rather than asking themselves what education is needed for students kids in a changing world. This is why, Cassese acutely observes, in school "we always start from the tail" and that is from the stabilization of temporary workers rather than asking "which interest comes first, that of the education of Italians or that of the placement of teachers in the role?". The final question that Cassese asks is also pressing: "Why do we continue to hire so many staff while the number of students and schools is decreasing?" . We should ask the many lobbies and trade union corporations surrounding the school and the propensity of most political forces to support them as obvious electoral interests instead of thinking about a serious school reform as he has begun to do French. Luckily Professor Cassese forces us to open our eyes.

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