Change the school. Again. Together with new highway code and crackdown on migrants, the Council of Ministers on 18 September approved a bill "for the establishment of the technological-professional training chain and for the review of the evaluation of the behavior of students". Simply put, the vote in conduct will become much more important and may also lead to debt in civic education, while in case dthe suspension prolonged, the students will have to carry out "solidarity citizenship" activities. But the most substantial part of the bill concerns the reform of the ITS, the technical and professional institutes which from the 2024/2025 school year will follow a 4+2 model with the aim of preparing young people for work and bridging the mismatch, the gap between job supply and demand, which becomes increasingly wider.
Conduct grade even in middle school, failure in case of serious behavior and debt with a 6
The bill approved on Monday by the Council of Ministers gives greater importance to the conduct grade in the overall evaluation of the student. The measure is also restores to middle schools where it will be expressed in tenths and establishes that it will affect the credits necessary for admission to the Maturity exam. Only who will take 9 or 10 in conduct in fact, he will be entitled to the maximum number of credits that make up the average final grade for the high school diploma.
The current legislation provides that the failure, following the 5 in conduct, is implemented exclusively in the presence of serious acts of violence or the commission of crimes. The reform instead provides that a 5 on the report card, and therefore the consequent failure, can also be assigned in the event of behavior that "constitutes serious and repeated violations of the Institute Regulations".
If the student takes 6 in conduct at the end of the year he will face a school debt in civic education. The aforementioned debt will have to be recovered in September with a check on constitutional and citizenship values.
The new rules have caused quite a few controversy, with Flc-Cgil, the Students' Union, the Media Network and the Democratic Parents coordination who, speaking of “punitive” bill for students.
“It is simply a law that does not provide an answer in educational terms to an existing problem, situations of youth hardship and attacks on teachers. The response is only punitive. In fact, the government does not address the issue of aggression but hides it by reforming the sanction, aggravating the sentence", commented Paolo Notarnicola, national coordinator of the Middle School Students' Network, in Repubblica.
School: how suspension changes
Suspension, understood as simple removal from school, there will be no more: the suspended student will be involved in school activities - assigned by the class council - of reflection and in-depth analysis on the issues related to the behaviors that caused the provision. A path that will end with the production of a paper on what has been learned.
If then the suspension exceeds 2 days, the student will have to carry out solidarity citizenship activities in affiliated structures, an activity that can continue if the class council decides.
School, the reform of technical institutes: this is how it works
The bill also contains the reform of technical and professional institutes. According to what is foreseen, from 2024/2025 a large-scale experiment will be launched which will follow thethe 4+2 model. There will be a four-year course which will be followed by 2 years of "specialization" in those that have been renamed Its Academy. The objective is to involve up to 30% of technical and professional institutes.
Central to learning will be the practical training and the concept of “technological-professional campus”, which will involve technical and professional institutes in a unique and integrated path which also includes the entry of teachers and experts from the world of work, with the aim of providing students with a more varied and above all applied educational offer.
“Today, technical and professional education finally becomes a first-class channel, capable of guaranteeing students an education that enhances the talents and potential of each one and can be used in the world of work, guaranteeing competitiveness to our production system,” he said. declared the Minister of Education and Merit Joseph Vallettara
“Italy – he continued – is the second manufacturing country in Europe: according to Unioncamere Excelsior data, from mechatronics to information technology at least 2027 thousand workers will be needed between now and 508, but Confindustria calculates that 48% of these will be difficult to find. In September 2023 this figure has already reached 48% (+ 5 points compared to 43% a year ago, in 2019 it was 33%). The decree aims to transform these alarming numbers into a great opportunity for our young people."
