LONDON SCHOOL ASSEMBLY
Summary of the April 17 meeting.
- ORGANIC
We heard from many schools cut staffing on school work: the situation is heavy, the average is a cut of about 2 for Comprehensive School teachers or Circle (except the very few with only full-time and non-module).
In the coming days all schools will have official data.
It seemed that the assignment, according to the directions of the circular on the staff, have had more or less these criteria
2 full time teachers per class on the historical-existing (from first to fifth) - with the use of the unknown presence,
teachers for about 30 hours to form the second to fifth (against the demands of 33 hours)
and teachers for about 27 hours to all first, whether required form, that if the new full-time education (compared to 30 hours of the required form and requests for new full-time).
The assignments of staff did not ensure the time required by school parents.
Executives in some schools already trying to find collaborative solutions hourly and organizational, in that situation Inadequate staffing.
The position shared by the assembly can be summarized as follows:
where he was assigned a staff cut, compared to the demands of parents and schools, everything else will bring a large amount of damage, in the form to the forced reduction in school time and in full-time for the eventual disappearance of copresences;
you must continue to defend against the full-time copresences the idea of using school time to ensure the required time in full or in new forms, because this would lead immediately to the disappearance of full-time school model:
schools are still in a situation unsustainable can not be acceptable any solution adjustment and acceptance of the cut and is therefore essential that schools be returned to the workforce cut.
It 'must be organized in schools initiatives to the request for withdrawal of the cut:
from
- Assemblies or other initiatives to inform parents and teachers of the cut and its destructive consequences,
- Discussions in the meetings of the governing bodies (colleges, teachers, school councils / circles, other ...), to produce motions / resolutions not to adopt any of the slots and possible organizational solutions, however, because destructive and divisive, MA to organize actions the request of staff missing
to arrive at
- Write letters, and the Regional Office Provincial School, as parents, teachers and parents, Boards of Institutes / Circle, Teachers Colleges
- Organize delegations of parents / teachers / advice ... Institute at the Circle-Provincial Office of Education school by school, in order to put in place in May at its relay of real schools, not accepting the claim cut ' Missing organic
- With all the possible ways to claim the willingness of families, also confirmed with the campaign of integrative models
- To maintain unity between parents and teachers of the classes taken and the establishment of new training (which is to work with the time requested by the families would drain resources from other classes), refusing to lie within the individual schools contradictions generated by cuts in organic solutions by accepting suffering and destructive to one or the other
and finally
at a future meeting of the schools across the province (hypothetically Fri May 8?) you should think about how to unify the struggles of individual schools in a joint initiative that gives strength to all.
At this stage it is important to know and inform especially the School Administrator
- That the Metropolitan Conference of Mayors in the Bologna area once to ask the Ministry of missing all the teachers in our area (see attached platform);
- That have been filed legal appeals, both by parents and teachers, both unions and the Regions, on the circular inscriptions, which are to be obtained from the suspension of the Tar illegitimate measures implemented
- Still exists, although greatly reduced, a "staff of fact" to draw from and additions need to get that all things that have been cut insist on integration than they got, just to get groped in the organic done what is missing in the organic law (requests must be "trawling") to force the Ministry to cancel the cuts in practice.
Again, as Schools of the Assembly, we wrote a letter to the ASABE, the Association of School Managers Bolognesi, ask them for a meeting, which aims to join forces in the requests for withdrawal of the cuts in an attempt to dissuade them from adopting solutions rapidly adjustment (attached).
NOTE. We can make available to those who organize informational meetings, copies of the video "The school slap": contact Stephen Mazza 12stefano@gmail.com .
- A NATIONAL LEVEL
In many other Italian cities, parents and teachers are faced with the same stroke of cutting staff, not all areas have been cut in equal measure, however, thinks it anywhere on the initiatives to be put in now, about the same way that from us.
The pressures that will be the first school to school, then along the same province as schools, should ultimately feed into a major national initiative in Rome.
The committees of the capital are thinking about the possibility of organizing a spectacular event in a Roman square, then calling all the schools of other cities to join it. We are awaiting confirmation of the possibility and time to organize the participation of schools in Bologna.
- TEXTBOOK ADOPTION
And 'now urgent to deal with this step.
The Circular requires that ... the adoption of the textbook remains unchanged for the same class for 5 years at the elementary school for 6 years at school (where, however, adoptions have been made, as it expired in recent days) regardless of whether that will be used from year to year by different teachers. This is a clear attack on freedom of teaching, so in many schools we reason about the various possibilities of opposition (see attached motion IC 7).
We talked a little last meeting, and these concrete proposals have emerged of opposition.
ADOPTION ALTERNATIVE offers the possibility to adopt texts for one year only, because other legislation that comes under the rule. Already some colleges (the first ... unanimously IC, the IC Cross Casalecchio) were cast for this solution.
The adoption of an alternative "classical" states that you choose to buy several books of fiction for children, the book instead of reading the same for all, issues or monographs on various topics from various disciplines, a subsidiary rather than adopt the same for everyone.
But beyond that possibility, agreeing with the representatives of publishing houses, you can buy them a book reading and a subsidiary of the same for all pupils, but submitting to the board adopted the proposal as an alternative.
I ask the teachers who already have at their disposal "type decisions" to be used for adoption of alternatives sent, so that I can run them as examples.
Warning: Notice of a legislative nature.
Almost always the alternative of adoption examples are "on file" are supported by powerful "projects": this is because until 1999 the adoption was an alternative means possible (according to art. 7 of Decree 297/94, "Text only "), but only in the form of" experimental "and therefore only after following a complex procedure, and prior authorization, and also, in retrospect," statements "(Articles of the same 276-277-278 DL 297/94).
Presidential Decree 275 of 8 March 1999 (the "Regulations on the autonomy of educational institutions", which gives effect to what was established by Decree-law 297/94 of principle, that the organizational and didactic autonomy of schools) on the one hand confirms the possibility of the adoption alternative (Art. 4, paragraph 5), other than the free complex procedures (repeal sharply with Article .17).
In summary: the adoption by the alternative "team", if not inconsistent with the POF, it is possible and should be justified simply by the Faculty Board and is sovereign or not to approve, pursuant to Article 4, paragraph 5 of Decree 275, 99, "Regulations on the autonomy of educational institutions."
Elena.
With regard to what you reported in the following piece of text, I would like to know what the other rule than the rule. Also I would be interested to receive a model presented to the Faculty Board for the alternative choice on textbooks adopted for one year. I cordially thank. Rosaria Cascarino
ADOPTION ALTERNATIVE offers the possibility to adopt texts for one year only, because other legislation that comes under the rule. Already some colleges (the first ... unanimously IC, the IC Cross Casalecchio) were cast for this solution.