Cuts at school, Rossi: “I will propose to go to San Marino” – Chronicle
“If the regional school office does not back down from its decisions, I will propose to my students to go to school in San Marino”: the mayor of Monte Grimano Terme Elia Rossi (photo) has already prepared the counter-move with respect to the decree of the general director regional Marco Ugo Filisetti of the last few days that in fact closes the first elementary class and forced the pupils of the small town to be merged with those of Mercatino Conca. “I have no intention of giving up a single centimeter on this matter -explains Rossi-. I have already set up a meeting for Monday with the Minister of Education of San Marino, who adjoins us with and is really a few kilometers away, to start thinking about a possible movement beyond the border of elementary and middle schools in our municipality. In case of merger, the mayor Rossi had already made it known that he does not intend to use the means of the public transport service in the country to bring his children to school in Mercatino Conca: “This umpteenth decision on the skin of small municipalities is unacceptable – he continues -. If the institutions no longer want some citizens to live in small towns, they will say so. But be careful: these are resources, they are the custodians of a territory, who have the full right to live where they want and not to accumulate costs. We only ask for a fair treatment and a decision that does not always go to our detriment. “Even the structural question of school buildings needs to be reviewed for Rossi:” We have a school structure for its function, which we have also intervened to make it more modern and efficient, in Mercatino Conca, on the other hand, work is now underway on the school and some classrooms are currently being moved to other buildings. Adding other classes is certainly not convenient. “Class that was first suppressed also in Borgo Pace. Mayor Romina Pierantoni apparently does not want to comment on the matter, also considering the reply of the Regional School Office at its beginning statements on the Carlino, but then fails to refrain: “The suppression of a first class is a decision that we cannot accept -comments-. The foundations of living in small villages are being undermined: reaching the closure of the school in a few years means depriving a municipality of its identity, its roots and its momentum towards the future. Perhaps it would be time that, instead of spending little words on the desire to revive small villages, concrete actions were taken for mountain areas and more municipalities. What I regret most is that we are administered by people who demonstrate that they do not know the territories, because if they are aware of it they would know what the choices entail “.
Andrea Angelini