Sardinia, now the emeritus black jersey of early school leaving in Italy, has suffered even more in these two years of pandemic, with thousands of children cut off because they have no internet connection or no computer.
The recent Eurispes survey , on a sample of students (694) of middle and high schools, gives the idea of the generational disaster affecting the present and the future of the Island: 36.4% of the children declared that "at least one or two classmates stopped attending online classes during the first wave of the pandemic, ”and 21.2% said classmates who dropped out of school were“ different ”.
The official data on early school leaving are only the tip of the iceberg: 23% of children between 18 and 24 have left their studies in the first two years of high school, which means that they only have a middle school license in their pocket. . If we take into account that in that age group Sardinia has just under 140 thousand young people, there are over 30 thousand .
A fact, explains Massimo De Pau, president of the NPC, the association of principals, "which, however, does not correspond to the real situation: the numbers are much worse because there is also the hidden share of students who do not reach the basic levels of competence. What does it mean? Who, for example, are unable to even carry out a simple operation at the post office ”.
THE STORY - Every day the school deals with the children who leave the desks, abandon their studies, and after they have gone out it is difficult to recover them. Like Domenico Deplano who left his country, Esterzili, when he was only 14 to study in Cagliari. First he enrolled in Ipsia, in the third year he moved to Meucci, but with the arrival of the pandemic and distance learning he dropped out of school .
"I was in fourth grade, when the coronavirus arrived I was repeating the year for the second time, I no longer had much desire, but perhaps distance learning and all the consequences of the pandemic influenced my choice." He adds: " I didn't have more stimuli : I put the books in a box and I stopped following the lessons "then" I went back to Esterzili and started cutting wood. Last year I joined Coldiretti and opened the VAT number: I am creating the my small farm that I will join my parents' farmhouse, I have many ideas to put into practice. Now I have this project in mind, I want to commit myself to carry it on, when I am well settled and my company will be started, in my spare time I could perhaps think about resuming your studies and finishing, but certainly there is no degree in my programs ".
(Unioneonline)
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