ROMA (Reuters) – After a stormy meeting yesterday at Palazzo Chigi between government and teacher unions on school reform presented by the government, today the Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has posted a video on the government website.
In the 17-minute video , in shirt sleeves on the blackboard with chalk in hand, Renzi says reform with a conciliatory tone and trying to throw water on the controversy.
The prime minister seems particularly concerned to convey the importance of the reform to improve the level of teaching them our country and, secondly, to ensure greater consideration to the teachers, also from the economic point of view, of their work.
“Today teachers have lost the social importance
they had in years past. The first responsibility of this we’ve got parents of the younger generation, “says the President of the Council and adds:” When you ask to boys to boycott the tests Invalsi [tests for students who have been boycotted by some] do not do a service to those guys. That’s why you need to give more money to teachers. It ‘a matter of justice to 500 euro more
teachers, to go to the theater or museums. “
On 5 May you place the national strike of the school proclaimed by the main teachers’ unions against the reform. At the center of the protest especially the powers of “manager” attributed to school officials.
The unions also asked to take all the temporary teachers, at least 150,000, up from 100,000 the government plan and the renewal of the contract sector, subject to 7 years.
In addition to the video premier also sent a letter to all teachers reiterating that in 2016 will be a competition for another 60 thousand jobs and that will be invested about four billion on school.
Replying to some of the most common fears the premier assured that: companies have no role in school councils; vacation days do not touch; no one can be fired after three years; the principal can not call her friends but he must choose between the winners of the competition in a limited geographical area.
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