(di Miriam Mafai, da Repubblica.it 06/12/2008)
Giulio Tremonti era noto fino ad oggi come il più rigoroso, persino spietato ministro dell' Economia, tanto da essere soprannominato "signor no". Qualcuno, non solo dell' opposizione ma anche della maggioranza, gli chiedeva di allargare i cordoni della borsa a vantaggio dei pensionati, o dei licenziati, o dei precari? No, non si possono purtroppo sforare le cifre del budget, the Minister replied.
The answer until recently was always the same: no. "Cut, cut spending" was his mantra . Collapsed the roof of a school in Rivoli and it turns out that many other schools are at risk? It takes money to make our schools the norm? No, the answer is always no. The state budget does not allow it.
But yesterday, the minister Tremonti has finally said yes . Within a couple of 'hours has found the money to meet the demand that came from the Vatican to increase the already established in the budget appropriation for Catholic schools. Against the original size of about 130 million euro had thundered Stenco Bishop, director of 'National Office of the CEI' s education, threatening a national mobilization of Catholic schools against the Berlusconi government and its Minister of Finance.
The threat was because of concerns of the minister. Within a few hours, the secretary to 'economy Giuseppe Vegas, on the sidelines of the Senate Budget Committee on Finance, assured the representative of Catholic schools. "We have tabled an amendment that restores the original level of funding. You can rest assured. Sleeping not two but four pillows ~ '.
So the expected cut in there will be no financial . And there will be no threat against mobilization of Catholic schools Berlusconi and Tremonti. Satisfied, but only for now, the Italian bishops. satisfied, for now, the Pope but the price rises and calls for new measures "for parents to help them in their inalienable right to educate their children according to their ethical and religious convictions."
In simpler words, c 'is here request to the Italian State to dismantle our sistema scolastico a favore della adozione del principio del "bonus" da assegnare ad ogni famiglia, da spendere, a seconda delle preferenze, nella scuola pubblica o nella scuola privata.
Naturalmente nessuno contesta il diritto «inalienabile» delle famiglie di educare i figli secondo le proprie convinzioni etiche e religiose. E non ci risulta che nella nostra scuola pubblica si faccia professione di ateismo. E l'insegnamento della religione non è affidato a docenti scelti dai rispettivi Vescovi? Cosa si vuole dunque di più?
Anche a costo di essere indicati come "laicisti" it is worth remembering that Article 33 of our Constitution still in force, states that "institutions and individuals have the right to establish schools and colleges of education no cost to the State . And in 1964 a government led by Aldo Moro, was defeated in the House and in crisis precisely because it proposed a modest funding to private nursery schools.
We therefore must wait nearly forty years as a government and a parliamentary majority, examining the issue of private schools and their possible regulatory and financing. And will the government D'Alema and his Education Minister Luigi Berlinguer at will, and to approve, a law providing for equal education, but in specific circumstances, funding is not all private schools but to those to be recognized as "equal."
whole matter in reality, despite some measures taken in the meantime, remains to be regular (not all private schools, for example, can be recognized as 'equal'). Even for this, to some uncertainty of the matter, I have found at least singular the intervention of two senior figures in the Democratic Party in support of the request hierarchies. Maria Pia Garavaglia
, Minister 's statement of the shadow government of the Democratic Party, and Antonio Ruskin, head of the Democratic Party in the Senate Education Commission have been warmly and said they liked the assurances given on behalf of Tremonti, undersecretary Vegas. But I am not yet satisfied. They want more . Also for private. They ask that they are guaranteed "equal rights for students and families" is almost the same words, the claim already made by the hierarchy.
But this is really, on schools, to the position reached by the Democratic Party? And if so, at which location is was this decision made? is just wondering, is essential to know. Also because he is right people like Don Macri, president of the Federation which brings together the Catholic schools, complains that the road leading to the bonus is an obstacle 'in' Article 33 of the Constitution which stipulates that private schools can exist without cost to the State. "
So what do we do? To meet the needs of Catholic schools throwing away the Article 33 of the Constitution?
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