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Rassegna stampa sulla manifestazione di mercoledì a Trento

L'Adige
http://www2.unitn.it/minirass/immagini/181110N/2010111832253.pdf
http://www2.unitn.it/minirass/immagini/181110N/2010111832246.pdf

Trentino
http://www2.unitn.it/minirass/immagini/181110N/2010111832247.pdf
http://www2.unitn.it/minirass/immagini/181110N/2010111832251.pdf

the Corriere del Trentino
http://www2.unitn.it/minirass/immagini/181110N/2010111832256.pdf

TCA
http://www.tvtca.com/video_on_demand.php?id_menu=2 & id_video = 10316

Global Project
Trento - 1000 students in the square in the International Day for the right to study! have the courage to take a bath of humility and admit that we still have much to learn. This is one of those moments: to let us know so bright were the teachers of kindergartens, capable, in recent days, take to the streets with firmness and determination to shout their anger against cuts in jobs determined by a provincial government increasingly short-sighted and stupid. The unit shown by the teachers put the Town in an uproar, the commissioner has dug out of hibernation Dalmaso which already was being prepared, has forced the unions to make the big voice, he easily attracted the consensus of Public ... in fact opened the space for negotiations.

us? What we do high school teachers? invested, against our will, from that 'innovative initiative "against which, on several occasions, we tried to resist: Letters in newspapers, assemblies, meetings, appeals, collection of signatures ... but what we got in a year of mobilization? What idea of \u200b\u200bour class we have legitimized in the eyes of families and students?

The 'innovative initiative "run at full speed: this is the only, incontestable, bitter truth. An outcome that, perhaps, was not so obvious, even if we had shown only a tenth of compactness and unity displayed by the teachers. What we have shown, however, is our inability to be united in the demand for their most basic rights, our chronic tendency to divide the cry of "every man for himself", our laziness, our disinformation, our tendency to ' self ... our willingness to trample on us, ignoring, excluding, in exchange for convenient and shameful compromises individual ...

A striking example of our weakness is the initiative of "boycott" of the trip: a good idea on paper, but we can not explain its true meaning and distribute extensively even among his colleagues and that, on balance, he ended up back to haunt us. "Even a little work, now no longer even on a trip, paid and repaid, they want to go!": This, finally, is the idea that most of the people has become of us and we have devised a form of protest. And the fault, sorry to admit, it is only ours once again, we proved unable to march together in the same direction, to fight for the same cause, falling into the trap of that ancient, but always present, " Divide et impera. "

Once again, we found inconclusive, imprecise, always ready to delegate. Invisible.

However, perhaps all is not (yet) lost. From here in February to play the future of our school, our jobs, our dignity. The weather there. And we are not alone: \u200b\u200bstudents, university and research world, the movements ... all reality that today, 17 November 2010, agreed to march together to try to change if not the world, at least how to stay there. To try to say NO to the commodification of culture, and insecurity of those who should be put in the best conditions so that it can spread.

Where do we stand? We want to be the game? Allora, per una volta, non sprechiamo quest'ultima occasione: uniamo le nostre forze, facciamo sentire che esistiamo... impariamo dalle maestre!

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Scott Barnes Foundation Brush

The lesson of the common good teachers

(pubblichiamo qui la lettera aperta all'Assessore che abbiamo spedito all'Adige venerdì scorso, ma che l'Adige non ha ritenuto di pubblicare)

Gentile Assessore Dalmaso,

gli Stati Generali della Scuola Trentina hanno aderito all'iniziativa promossa dai colleghi del Galilei e rapidamente diffusasi in molte scuole della nostra provincia, perché è perfettamente in linea con i principi and proposals for months that inspire our efforts to help build a better school.

Reduced in a nutshell, it consists in an attempt to make clear the many contradictions created by his "innovative initiative", relying on one of the most sensitive aspects of the entire system. We are far away from mere wage claims.

Specifically, as you know, educational trips with overnight stays are not any rights for students, much less any obligation for teachers are just one of the possible activities that a class council may consider useful for growth of students. This is spelled out, to clear up any speculation sull'irresponsabilità of teachers and their non-compliance. Always takes advantage, however, the availability of teachers and unconsciousness, to follow a well-established tradition, but increasingly called into question precisely at the level of its educational value as well as economic and social opportunity. If it is true, as you have stated on these pages, that funding for educational trips have not decreased, we ask how much of these funds, used to remunerate the work of the coaches and to cover the risks associated with the great responsibility that they assume. Money is not changed, but everything else has changed: you can not use two weights and two measures. Who makes it a question of money is not the teachers, asking simply and necessarily the recognition of all the work done: it is instead the Administration, with the complicity of the unions, want to count to their advantage the single minute of the performance of teachers , only to round a flat rate of four a day, the hours used to accompany students on trips.

As you readily understood, the initiative of the trip is designed to challenge, from the premises, an "innovative initiative" that the provincial government has sought to impose the thirty school without discussing it in the Provincial Council, without wanting to hear constructive criticism that the school has made, without considering the practical consequences of policy choices that would produce the functioning of our schools.

There is no exploitation of students, on our part. Who's who exploits the boys on one side keeps saying he wants to "put the student at the center, but on the other level down the quality of teaching in exchange for a lower selectivity (read" meritocracy ") of training, major share of funding shifts from public schools to private education, reduce school time and increases the number of students per class, thus facing the problem of insecure, simply by cutting the number of chairs. Who's who exploits the young teachers accused of being concerned only about money, looking for the easy consensus of demagogic vulgata judging teachers privileged, overpaid, lazy, with three months of free vacations and trips.

E 'took was a letter from the student because you just showed your willingness to meet them, while a year that systematically refuses to meet with our teachers, we want to make an appointment?

Sincerely,

The States-General of the School Trentina