Riffe for salary alternates Principals: "Schools bankrupt"
Help In the beginning was the soap for the bath, the tissues for colds, the plastic cups for drinking, reams of paper (even used) to draw. Then it was enlarged to the shot photocopies, were sought "parent volunteers" to address new tablecloth for the table, moms buoncuore for washing weekly and monthly school furnishings. Now the families had to pay even the alternates. The schools are collapsing. Money you do not see coming and school officials to pay for temporary workers are forced to use the cash fund of the institute. Money for other activities, such as those for the excursions, and calls for projects to improve teaching, but also money raised through lotteries school, Christmas markets, selling Easter eggs. Everything to address the chasm created by the loans ever welded by the Ministry since 2006 and goes under the heading of "replacement", indeed. The call for schools in bankruptcy was also launched by CISL Lombardy a few days ago asked the regional director Anna Maria Dominici, a meeting to seek a solution.
Shortage up to 500 thousand euros
"Five months from the closure of schools lack the necessary funding to pay for substitute teachers and are now also at risk of Commissioners payments for state exams - explains the regional coordinator for school leaders, Joseph BIAT -. The schools have collapsed and many banks with whom they had made arrangements, do not renew the agreements. Who has a few credits of up to 90 thousand euros. So the money from the fund institute, those destined for extra-curricular activities and that parents pay for trips, for the right to study or collect through lotteries and markets end up in the cauldron of supply teachers. The schools are compelled to tax families to move forward, to require voluntary contributions to pay for Enel or toilet paper. But the blanket is always too short. "
Not talking about peanuts, but that average is around one hundred thousand dollars per school with a peak of 500 thousand.
"The problem is dramatic - Sandi confirms Anna, director of the Institute including on the Sicilian Vespers, 800 elementary students spread over two and a maternal -. I have a pile of debts in excess of 130 thousand euros. I'm giving the bottom of the cash to pay for substitute teachers, but it can not go forward. What do I do? I no longer use the copresences for educational purposes, but only to make up for missing a teacher absent and when they are forced to divide the children of various classes, although this could not be done. I once met three classes in the gym, all to a movie. " The problem is felt more for kindergarten and primary with small children because the need is greater control. "I can not leave children unattended for 5 years - still the principal -. But I can not even call a deputy and tell him that I will pay in three years. There is also the sacred right to remuneration. If we will not be helped we will be forced to take extreme measures, including suspending the service. "
Pagan parents
Another school, another abyss: the street Scialoia including 700 students for two kindergartens, a primary school and an average 'hole' has reached 180 thousand euros. Ida Morello tells the officer: "To call the alternate primary school only if the absence is longer than five days, the medium only if it is in addition to 15. Before you buy something you think about it ten times. All at the expense of training, of course. The PCs are old, but we can not change it for the music workshop parents have come forward, collecting contributions that volunteers were able to buy some musical instrument. But we are in an area of high migration process, where families are struggling even to pay minimum contributions. And then this is the school you can not get back to the families. " Parents, thankfully. "Because it is often because of them - continues Dean - you make some money: raffles, used book sale, flea markets, the committees of mothers and fathers strives to help desolately empty coffers." "We boast a credit of 200 thousand euros - says Lorraine Peccolo, director of the institute including Vimodrone -. The situation is embarrassing and tragic rain each year throughout the school fund to pay for substitute teachers. When money has no cut. An example? Not satisfied with the canteen for teachers since 2002. So in my turn, I have accumulated a debt of the City of over 30 thousand euro. We are lucky: the council is concerned about school policy and it subsidizes all quality projects and extracurricular activities. " And there are those with few tens of thousands of dollars on credit is lucky. This is the case of Aldo Acquati, including leader and president dell'Asam Italo Calvino, a trade association. "We are aided by parents who scraped together small treasure always." What will happen now? "We denounce a critical situation for years in schools. The problem is that the ministry has cleared the transfer of funds in institutions, and these are no longer able to make statements. From next year we will be to paradox. Because with organic cuts of the first to be made will be out of the precarious workers, those who make the annual replacements. You will have to resort to short ones, but there is no money for these. A vicious circle with no exit. "
Alessandra Pasotti
Source: ilgiornale.it
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