Regardless of the users' rights (students and families) as is their tradition, the Cobas raise the bar against the school reform and threaten two days of blockage of the ballots, which the Guarantor of the strikes has already defined as "illegitimate" assuming the use of the precept.
But the protest of the autonomous and confederal unions (which, however, do not seem to share the line of blocking the ballots) does not intimidate Prime Minister Matteo Renzi who, while always keeping the door of dialogue open, warns: "Listening does not mean necessarily complying".
Despite the social protests of those who would like to maintain the status quo in a school that doesn't work and is no longer in step with the times, the reform is progressing in Parliament and the Chamber has already approved the first seven articles of the measure.
Among the innovations, the greater push towards school-work alternation stands out (400 hours in the last three years in technical and professional institutes and 200 in high schools), the student's curriculum (which will be evaluated in the final exam), the green light to optional subjects and funding of 90 million for the digital school and laboratories.
Renzi, on the other hand, ruled out a decree law for the hiring of precarious workers if the reform is not approved first.
On Monday the battle will enter the heart of the Chamber with the examination of the provisions of the reform which concern in particular the role of principals and the evaluation of teachers.
As had already emerged during the parliamentary confrontation on the Job Act, many oppositions actually have nothing to do with the substance of the school reform but only wink at the electoral campaign for the next regional ones trying to smooth the fur more corporate teachers based on cheap populism or, as in the case of the pasdaran of the Pd minority now on the verge of splitting, express a prejudicial opposition to the Government and Matteo Renzi himself, who however does not seem to worry too much.
