Discriminatory. This is the adjective that kids use the most. 66% of those interviewed by Skuola.net do not appreciate the novelty of the 2021 state exam: the Student Curriculum. The biggest criticism comes from the fact that this new document would not put all candidates on the same level.
Uncertainty reigns over everything. Less than a month before exams, one in three students have no idea how it works and one in seven say they don’t even know it exists. The Curriculum should be used by students to introduce themselves and to committees to learn more about the graduate.
The document is divided into three parts (Education and training, certifications, extracurricular activities) and language certifications, extracurricular activities whether cultural, musical, sporting, artistic or voluntary must be indicated inside.
It is the last part that makes us discuss. In this it is the student who can report “professional activities, cultural and artistic, musical, sporting, active citizenship and voluntary activities and other extracurricular activities deemed significant “. The compilation is optional. And it is not appreciated.
66% of high school graduates do not think this novelty is a correct choice. Almost half of them, 45%, say that this tool discriminates against those children who cannot afford to do extra-curricular activities. For 33% it reached the last, too close to the exam, and 22% think that the final grade should be based only on academic performance.
50% of those who support it say it is a means functional to make teachers understand more things about the boy that they will have to judge. 29% appreciate that it rewards commitment outside of school.
“Surely the Student Curriculum brings out more clearly the ability of the students to enrich their education”, he says Daniele Grassucci, director of Skuola.net, «And consequently, in addition to individual talent, also the spending power of families. However, for twenty years, teachers have been focusing their eyes on their pupils’ extra-curricular activities, since school credits were introduced… If this is the reason given for defining the Italian class school, then it has been for a long time. Perhaps, instead of canceling or softening the instruments that certify it, it would be better, in the interests of the students, to give even the less well-off more opportunities ».
The president of the Constitutional Court Giancarlo Courage he spoke of “some problems in the risk of inequality, of favoring the richest, who can send their children abroad”. He also added: “But I’m sure that the Minister of Education Patrizio Bianchi, whom I met personally, is aware of the problems and will know how to deal with them.”
According to many, the problem lies upstream: not in the opportunities that some have, but in those denied to others. Article 33 of the Constitution says that “the capable and deserving, even if without means, have the right to reach the highest grades of studies”. Inequalities start before extracurricular activities. They depend on the lack of tools such as PCs or tablets, of connection, of access to books, of spaces, at school and at home.
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