Racism explodes between the desks of medium. "We sit down with the Chinese: they stink" (Franco Vanni)
A Fourth Oggiaro, tough neighborhood on the outskirts of Milan, prof summon parents. And the teachers decided that every two weeks, students must change places and the allocation of stalls is decided by
thirteen professors who do not want the students as classmates Chinese, because they say "stink." That student to get up during the hours of mathematics and launched his proclamation: "Italy Italians." To break up what are called "racist attitudes are unacceptable," the teachers of eighth grade school Trilussa in the fourth quarter of Oggiaro Milan, has made a drastic decision: every fifteen days, students must change their place of assignment banks is determined by the professors.
"To see the room divided into" neighborhoods "giving pain, now the students will get to know really," says Adele Moroni, an Italian teacher of the class, in which nine of the 22 students are foreigners. In a month of testing, students had to switch the bank three times already. The final mixing was just done. The project was preceded by a letter to parents, at school called "to discuss the specification of the class," where in general "relations between children are not always easy."
more explicit notice addressed to 13 Italian families, which speaks of "intolerance towards non-Italians." Encounters with moms and dads in the i, on Tuesday, the professors have presented the results of the new integration strategy. "Although we are only just beginning - tells Moroni - We had important signals. In some cases, moving. " A Moroccan girl, who had previously been soiled clothes "joke" with paint, was invited to study together in the afternoon by his companions. A student from Ecuador "often isolated" in the company now spends the interval.
more difficult the integration of the five Chinese students, who arrived in the classroom this year. For them, the injury appears to be more grounded, "Do not pay taxes," "we steal jobs', 'are different', they say the other guys. It does not help that, not knowing the language, the five must spend many hours alone with a teacher who teaches their Italian. The support of the class teacher, has no doubts about the usefulness of the project: "In 2009 the boys are racist is absurd - he says - we will move forward with places in rotation until we win the challenge."
Professor Moroni went to buy a Christmas tree to put in the classroom. Each student will be asked to bring an object from home, but of little value "with a meaning." Before the Christmas holidays, a raffle, the items will be distributed among the students at random. (La Repubblica, December 1, 2009)
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