Appeal of teachers for the ius soli and ius culture
We teachers look each other in the eye every day over 800.000 children and teenagers children of immigrants, While attending schools with fellow Italians, are not citizens as their. If born here, will have to wait until 18 years without even having the certainty of driving, If you arrived here by small (and just under half) will not currently be able to enjoy equal rights in our country….
We are thus in the paradoxical condition of having education for citizenship and the Constitution ", following the signs for the curriculum – they are State law – knowing full well that many of them will not have neither citizenship nor the right to vote.
This state of affairs is intolerable. How can we expect to educate the rules of democracy and coexistence students who are and will be discriminated by region? For consistency, We should exempt them from activities relating to citizenship education, that is cross-topic, mandatory, and directly or indirectly affects all disciplines and skills which we are called to build with them.
For these reasons, we propose that we teachers and educators on Tuesday 3 October you notes on dress a tricolor Ribbon, to indicate our willingness to consider as of now all children who attend our schools Italian citizens in all respects.
Anyone who wants can testify to this commitment by abstaining from food on that day in a symbolic hunger strike and chorus.
The 3 October is the date that the Italian Parliament has chosen to dedicate to the memory of the victims of migration and we strive for in all classes and schools where can we undertake to reason together at girls and boys of the paradox in which we find ourselves, because a law invites us "to lay the foundations for the exercise of active citizenship", While other laws prevent access to full citizenship to many students, children of immigrants who populate our schools.
We are also committed to collect the highest possible number of accessions and to organize, from 3 October to 3 November, a month of mobilization to address the topic in schools with the most different initiatives, convinced of the need to be active witnesses of a contradiction that undermines the root our professional commitment.
We believe that the ius soli and ius Cultureand, beyond all belief or political affiliation, is a necessary condition to give coherence to an education which, following the dictates of our Constitution, recognize equal duties and rights to all human beings.
At the end of the month we will deliver this petition to the Presidents of Parliament Laura Boldrini and Pietro Grasso by Senator Luigi Manconi, Chairman of the Committee for the protection and promotion of human rights, because ASAP is endorsed the law currently being debated in the Parliament.
The teachers and educators that work in different situations, associations, groups or schools may join the call by connecting to the teachers ' Appeal for the ius soli and ius Cultureand.
We have also created the Facebook group "TEACHERS for CITIZENSHIP", exclusively to collect proposals, experiences and tips to share, to prepare the initiatives that will take place on 3 October and the next month. We call everyone to work together and cooperate to build a broad campaign which starts from schools. To enter search for the facebook group "Teachers for citizenship"
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first signatories
– Frank Larsen elementary school teacher
– Eraldo Affinati teacher and writer, the school founder Penny Wirton
– Giancarlo Caroline Secretary of MCE, Cooperative Education Association
– Joseph Bathrooms Chairman of CIDI, Teachers ' democratic initiative Centre
– Clotilde Pontecorvo President of FITCEMEA
– Gianfranco Staccioli Secretary of FITCEMEA
– Roberta Passoni Coordinator of Casa-Carvin lab
– Paola Piva migrant schools Coordinator
– Alessandra Smerilli ASINITAS school for foreigners
– Sara Honegger school for foreign ASNADA
– Fiorella Pardesi scuolesenzapermesso network