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twelve o’clock, September 6, 2021 – 10:45 pm
Next Monday we go back to class: the task for teachers and parents
from Giancarlo Visitilli
she climbed onto her husband’s shoulders, to carry her over the wall, taking care that her three-year-old dress did not get stuck in the barbed wire. He then said to the reporter reporter: I want a future for you. I will endure the pain of the legacy with my husband, but my daughter has to study. And Akhira, an Afghan child, now, who knows to whom she is entrusting her salvation. What will he grumble for days, in the womb of his mother and father, who have remained, perhaps to die in Kabul. But they assured their little girl the safety, with the thought of the school. Even on the occasion of the pandemic there was talk of war. And partly the state, an endless war. Including the one that will continue in a few days among teachers and families, who also remain, to choose to have their children stay, regardless of what might have happened for their future. And it happened, all that the data, in the present, have reported, in order of school dropout, educational poverty, inhomogeneity between the North and the South.
Credibility to be regained
All this will be the subject of study, indeed a matter for principals and teachers, who, for the next few years, will have only one task: to regain their credibility, which has waned for years, due to a politicume that has always scarred the sense and the value of the school, accompanied by the politichese that made us, as Apulians, unequal in our country, compared to high school students, missing from school for a year and a half. In the meantime, however, he did something else (Dad, Did). But other, not the school. Therefore, the next few months teachers will have to persuade parents who are increasingly skeptical of the value of the school, beyond the place to deposit their children during their work. Mothers and fathers should be told to let their children go. To save himself, like Akhira. So that they can have a different future, better, or at least hope so, than the accommodating one of their parents and those who try to govern them. To say that school is a serious matter, that the only weapon capable of making us fight battles and wars against those who would like us even without a burqa but deprived of the strength and nakedness that knowledge offers us, in case of choices. Political, social, religious and human.
Learning to be a giant
We should hope for a school that will restore the gaze, to learn to see. Who sniffs the feeling, feeling that sense of touch that has frozen us all. The school that teaches to laugh, to cry, not to be afraid of fear. May it anesthetize us from the lack of pain and indignation for what we have been missing. To everyone. Because the school of those who learn to be a giant, even supporting themselves on the shoulders of others. Feeling the vertigo of the flight, the encumbrance of the wall. When you have the feeling that everything can be seen, if you exceed the limit of power, of the barbed wire and that hedge, as can a computer screen, which from the last horizon, not only the gaze has excluded.
6 September 2021 | 22:45
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