School dropout, Italy among the worst in Europe

The return to class, even if with the high school only 50%, is completed almost everywhere. However, it is difficult to tell a school that has not suffered damage due to the pandemic, a school that was not in good shape even before and that has lived long months of distance learning. The fear is that another figure may grow, that of school dropout, which is already heavy for our country.

The portal Skuola.net analyzed data from the European Education and Training Sector Monitoring Report for 2020.

The percentage of young people in the 18-24 age group who leave education and training early was 13.5% in 2019, so even before the closure for Covid. The figure from 2009 to 2019 is constantly improving, but still high.

One in seven boys does not graduate. The percentage was higher. The ELET index, Early leavers from education and training it was 14.5% in 2018 and in 2009 it was 19.1%. Even the 2019 figure is still too high compared to the benchmark set by the European Union for 2020: the threshold is 10%. Italy has improved compared to the figure, 16%, that the EU asked for given the bad starting situation, but it has not aligned itself with the common threshold.

In Europe they only do worse Spain, Malta, Romania which are above 15% and Bulgaria which stops at 14.6%. Portugal is 11%. Greece is doing very well, at 4%.

The Italian problem is that of clear regional difference. In the North-East, the European target is reached as the index stops at 9.6%. In the South the average rises to 16.7%. Boys are more likely to drop out of school than girls. The most at risk are children born abroad: the school dropout rate exceeds 30%, one in three.

Explain Daniele Grassucci, director of Skuola.net, that “there are also those who, while progressing in classes and formally holding the famous” piece of paper “, in fact do not have in their cultural baggage the tools that should be possessed with that type of level of education. Evidence can help us find them INVALSI: dwelling precisely on the latest results available for the last high school class (dating back to 2019), we realize that many graduates barely reach the minimum targets set for the eighth grade, as if five years of high school had not helped anything “. All this before the pandemic.

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