Gallarate - The protest at the Gallarate high schools. "The students here don't count" - Gallarate/Malpensa - Varese News
Last day of protest at the Licei dei Tigli in Gallarate : boys and girls expressed on social media but also with banners in the street the discomfort experienced at school.
“Welcome to the school where students don’t count” is the banner that appeared (and then removed) in front of the high school building. At the same time, the students also explained their reasons in detail with a long graphic post on Instagram, published by the Lista CiSta account.
“Our high school once promoted students’ critical development and provided them with spaces to express, discuss, and shape it,” the students wrote. What are the controversial points?
One concerns the spaces for autonomous expression of the student component: « Once upon a time, the speakers of student assemblies were not chosen, approved and controlled by the management» . For those who attended high school before the 2000s, this was normal, but in the last few decades, the spaces for student autonomy have been greatly reduced.
Then there is an accusation about the bureaucratization of the school: "To make a mural in memory of Giulia ( the 16-year-old girl killed by her father in Samarate, ed.) from the idea to the realization it took two and a half years. To remove the one that recently appeared, just a few days" the students write again in the Facebook post.
The reference is to the mural “Gallarate antifascista” that was painted by unknown people one night and then promptly erased. However, the students do not so much refer to the political content, but to the general dynamics with respect to other requests that emerged from male and female students: «The problem is not constituted by the political position but by the very long bureaucratic procedures implemented for initiatives that perhaps the management is not so interested in». Finally, the protest on the last day of school would also be linked to the decision to have lessons held on the last day ( a topic that has also emerged elsewhere ).
Another post also contests pressure on teachers who had expressed, on social media, support for the students' reasons, and it is also said that there was an intervention to remove flyers hanging in front of the school.
Beyond the individual claims, the discomfort is broader and the students recall the function of the school, which «should bring out, not cut off, the wealth of students' opinions, their lively spirit of initiative, their grit, their curiosity». They would like «a future at least different from the current one: a culturally alive environment, rich in diversity, teeming with initiatives».
A school capable of developing critical thinking: « We do not want to think that the prevailing trend today is that of those who choose and stay in their own backyard, of those who live with a dormant conscience and of those who do not reflect on what surrounds them outside their own backyard».
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