Italy imposes strict measures from primary school

In Italy, the majority has just adopted a reform to toughen school rules due to the deterioration of the climate in educational establishments.

The driving grade is regaining importance at school in Italy. She will play a key role from elementary to high school. This reform is part of a text which increases firmness measures at school. The score will be out of 10. In middle and high school, for students who obtain 5 or less, this will mean repeating a year. In high school in particular, a low 6 out of 10 is not enough. The teenager will have to pass a sort of catch-up session in September, with questions on the major values ​​of the Constitution, such as civic education in France. And this mark will count for the baccalaureate.

The Minister of Education justifies this novelty by asserting that the climate is deteriorating at school. He highlights figures according to which attacks in schools more than doubled last year compared to the previous year. Moreover, the law also provides for fines of up to 10,000 euros for families whose students or parents attack teachers.

Beyond the driving grade, in primary school, there is another change. Assessments will no longer be limited to achievements and progress to be made. Instead, value judgments return: insufficient, fair or excellent. With this law, it is the return of “responsibility” and of “respect” at school, according to the majority. It is “a throwback”replies the opposition.

The text comes after the adoption, by the deputies, of another very tough bill: the security bill, which must now pass the Senate. Among other measures, it removes the automatic deferral of a prison sentence for pregnant women, provides prison time for activists who block the road during improvised sit-ins, and requires foreigners to have papers to obtain a simple SIM card.

The opposition demonstrated on Wednesday September 25 against this bill. But she is forced to watch the trains go by, two years after the election of the still popular Giorgia Meloni. The left only achieved victory on one subject: access to Italian nationality. Blood law prevails and 10 years of continuous presence in the country are required to be naturalized. A petition to reduce this deadline to five years has just reached the number of signatures needed to hold a referendum.