While all over Sardinia they celebrate “Sa Die de sa Sardigna”, the symbolic day of the identity and freedom of the Sardinian people, in front of the headquarters of the Regional School Office in Cagliari another story is being played out. That of those who are still prisoners of precariousness.
They are the teachers of the “Precari Sardi in Cattedra” who, together with the ESP Movement and the Cobas Scuola Cagliari, have decided to transform the celebration into a protest: from 9 in the morning they have been occupying via Giudice Chiano, with banners and voices asking for respect, rights and stability.
No celebrations for them. After years spent between substitutes and broken promises, today they demand a future that no longer arrives in fits and starts .
In Sardinia, they report, thousands of teachers live suspended in uncertainty, crushed by new, very expensive qualifications, by rankings that are not very transparent, algorithms that penalize them and rules that even put their permanence in the hands of the families of the students. A paradox, they say, that devalues professionalism and undermines the public school itself.
A delegation of protesters will be received by the Director of the USR Sardinia, Francesco Feliziani. It will be an opportunity to bring all the open wounds to the table: from the chaos of the rankings to the fate of those qualifying for the 30 CFU courses, from transparency in competitions to the defense of the rights of support teachers: "Enough patching up, we need a school that no longer leaves anyone on the margins".
For them, “Sa Die” does not have the flavour of freedom for those who have been fighting for years in the shadows of classrooms .
It has the bitter taste of those who, despite working every day to educate new generations, still have to fight to see a basic right recognized: that of a stable, dignified, respected job.