Luigi Marattin has defined the government’s decision, led by Meloni, to forgo the reduction of nearly 5,000 positions in the school staff as profoundly wrong. He wrote that over the last ten years, the number of students in state schools had decreased by 800,000, which is 10%, while the number of teachers had increased by 135,000, or 16%. He added that the average number of students per class in Italy was lower than the EU and OECD average and that, in his opinion, there were no reasons to continue increasing the teaching staff. Marattin argued that Italian teachers were paid half compared to their German counterparts and much less than those in most other European countries. On behalf of the Liberal Democratic Party, he stated that he preferred staff levels appropriate to needs, with better-paid teachers who are trained and valued based on merit. He accused some of viewing schools as a social buffer, with many teachers poorly paid and little respected. Finally, he wrote that Italy would not be able to avoid decline without resisting populist and demagogic media waves. #Scuola #Educazione #Politica (translated)
