"The internship is our right", especially if it is a linguistic high school. And again: "Less bureaucracy, more empathy".
In Porto Torres, students from the linguistic high school, part of the Mario Paglietti Higher Education Institute, demonstrated to claim the right to study trips abroad. Parents, teachers, girls and boys with slogans, whistles and megaphones, protested forcefully in front of the school entrance, urging a confrontation with the school management.
Five classes from course A and others from other sections, as well as a group of students from the scientific sports high school. The decision to demonstrate was made on Thursday, after the meeting of the Institute assembly.
«We have been asking for a long time to participate in the language courses as foreseen by the school educational offer illustrated during the Open Days», explains Gabriele R., a 17-year-old student, among the most lively of the protest.
“We are tired of programs that are not respected because study trips are organized late and in the end they are cancelled.”
Over 150 students with some parents and the teachers of the linguistic high school at their side. A roar of engines ignites the protest. They want to be heard. "We need to live these experiences that we have been facing with discomfort for five years now", underlines Giada Zinchedu , an 18-year-old student, "all this despite the many requests from us, we students of the linguistic high school who need to practice the language".
Within the school, a commission of teachers and a parent is responsible for organizing study projects in Italy and abroad.
"For the fourth year in a row we have been enduring problems with the organization of internships, students who need training trips and, to date, still no response that we expected by December. The serious shortcoming, in fact, is the timing that creates enormous inconvenience in terms of prices that are rising", explains Daniela Campus, a Languages teacher .
