Eighty students were rejected. The same number of students, even if they wanted to, will not be able to attend the Alberti Scientific High School because the school, despite a long series of promises, including from the current Metropolitan City Council, has no guarantees regarding the space and classrooms available. "There is still no concrete plan for the renovation of the historic building on Viale Colombo or for the construction of a new permanent location." The complaint comes from the "A Location for the Alberti High School" committee, represented by teachers at the school.
Following the committee's protests in 2023 and the interest shown by mayoral candidates at the start of the 2024 election campaign—which symbolically launched on April 27 with a meeting promoted by the committee itself at its headquarters on Viale Colombo—there is no concrete answer regarding the school's future. The committee's then-promising words ("The Alberti High School is our priority"; "We will work to find a permanent solution"), as stated in a statement, "have gone completely unheeded, and the school community is deeply concerned."
Some tentative signs had arrived in July 2025, when school principal Roberto Bernardini, along with a delegation from the Committee, was received by Mayor Massimo Zedda at the Metropolitan City offices on Viale Ciusa.
On that occasion, the mayor, according to the committee, had proposed submitting a request to the Port Authority—which manages the state-owned Viale Colombo building—for an adequate extension of the concession, thus allowing the Metropolitan City to begin the consolidation work and return the numerous classrooms currently unusable to the school community.
Since then, however, no official communication has been received from the Port Authority—which has since changed president—nor from the Metropolitan City itself. The timeframe is decidedly inadequate to address a problem that will recur in exactly the same way in December 2027, when the Port Authority's current concession for Viale Colombo expires.
So last week, the high school was forced to "unwillingly" reject nearly eighty applications for the next school year, drawing up a ranking that excludes students who would have liked to study at Alberti but will not be able to.
While for those who chose the traditional scientific high school, there are several alternatives in other schools in the city, in the case of the Applied Sciences and Linguistics majors, "more than sixty students will have to choose different study paths, more inconvenient locations, or majors perhaps less suited to their aspirations. This, in our opinion, is a serious case of disrespect for the right to education and the personal choices of many young Sardinian citizens, which further violates the "pact between generations," fueling their distrust of institutions: adults and politicians are not interested in the problem of education, and the sacrifices (commuting, dilapidated buildings, overcrowded classes, fallback choices) fall on the weakest."
(Unioneonline)
