Student mobilizations also started in Florence • Nine from Florence
The students of the Florentine institutes who, starting from the Michelangelo and Dante high schools, started the student occupations. In the document released on the street this morning, the students denounced the “abominable management of the school system” in recent years, rejected the “repugnant logic” that governed it, asked for greater attention to personal training and critical thinking, responded forcefully to the “principle classist who rewards students without considering the starting situations, denying equal opportunities” to the most disadvantaged.
“On Wednesday, November 30, during our school assembly, we explained all the infrastructural problems encountered at school, in our classrooms, in our spaces: water infiltration, too exposed electric cables, classes without light, radiators that don’t work and above all the ‘absence of the courtyard for the past 3 years a Palazzo Frescobaldithe lack of an elevator (always a Palazzo Frescobaldi) and its malfunction a Rinuccini Palace preventing its use by male and female students, male and female professors who would need it due to physical problems. We sent countless emails to the Metropolitan City requesting a meeting without ever receiving a response. Today we’re taking that meeting, we’re on strike” Machiavelli-Capponi explained.
There Fiom Cgil of Florence, Prato and Pistoia shares the reasons for their mobilization and with them opposes the school policies announced by the Government: “Education cannot be based exclusively on numerical assessments and on the classist principle of meritocracy – they say from FiomCgil– We also reiterate that it is necessary to change the law which requires students to follow a path that puts the safety of young people at risk who should be in a safe environment when they study, present in the company to learn, not to produce, trained on safety standards and always followed by a tutor. You go to school to study, not to die.”
“We fully subscribe to the students’ words -they spoke from USB PI Scuola Firenze- The strike that USB, together with the other conflicting union organizations, called last December 2nd and the very well-attended (about 10,000 people took to the streets) national demonstration on the 3rd precisely the objective of building a broad popular front to contrast the liberal economic policies that the Meloni government is demonstrating its willingness to continue to implement. The occupations of Florentine students today, as well as those carried out in the rest of the country, are the most beautiful way to continue to keep alive the struggle of December 2nd and 3rd”.