The review
Precarious school: the desperation in a chair
MICHELE FIRE
exploitation of precarious work in the Italian school is cause for a rigorous, and disturbing, reflection Vincenzo Brancatisano tackles, with strong commitment to morality in the book "One Life to alternate" (New World ... 350 pages, € 12.50). He professor (of law and political economy), as well as journalist, Brancatisano highlights the condition of many teachers still have to transition from one school to another, from classes to other classes, with irreparable damage to students. It calls into question the rule that "pours" starvation wages for teachers (just over 1,200 euro per month after 20-30 years of service annually), revealing bad employer, with the aggravating circumstance to write laws against exploitation and violation of the rights of its citizens. The book takes on the character of a choice polemic against the artificiality, the falsity of the laws and the conduct of our rulers. Read also endorsed by the unions often sign contracts unfair that humiliate human dignity. The situation is that of a "pervasive insecurity" that often lasts for decades, if not forever, and makes the teachers of the true modern-day slaves. Among harrowing testimony about classroom overcrowding, to substitute paid late, unpaid holiday on families who are confronted with despair, on temporary teachers who face enormous sacrifices and suddenly found themselves without work, the bad examples of Mariastella Gelmini Renato Brunetta, a rain of money to private schools, the fake invalids, on teaching in schools over two thousand feet above sea level to get the double points, Brancatisano questions, learning attitude with deeply felt and sincerely meditated on a 'miserable socio-cultural condition. The survey is conducted on carefully selected suffered daily, highlighting the illusions, the failures, the few dreams of escape, the shots of deep pride and unnecessary rebellion. Many stories of suffering and losses, but also of the struggles that they want to uphold the dignity of human life. The book, which is rooted in an exaggerated reality, establishing a representation of the injustice perpetrated against a category, expanding the framework in a wider society. This is not to deal with a local condition, but to offer, including interviews with directors and teachers, interventions at various levels and a wealth of facts, a clear testimony of an unsustainable situation at national level. A choral narration, the content strong, passionate, which makes the diary of cultural and existential travails. Michele Fire (La Gazzetta di Modena, August 22, 2010)
