The school year starts today in various schools in Sardinia, a few days ahead of the calendar which sets the general return to school on Thursday.
Approximately 180,000 primary and middle school students and high school students met the first entrance bell.
A constant decline in enrollments, a repercussion of the record birth rate figures, in a region with high dropout percentages, the highest number of repeat pupils (11.4%, compared to the Italian average of 6.2%) and the highest ratings low in the Invalsi tests and in the OECD tests, tests on basic skills in which the majority of children do not reach the basic level.
After the hiring of 1,556 teachers, there are still many uncovered chairs with the army of temporary workers waiting , while over one hundred support teachers and several dozen teachers of subjects such as art, Italian, music, foreign languages, are arrived from other regions after the so-called quick call from the regional school office.
The unions also report problems regarding the ATA staff, i.e. the workers in the school's administrative, technical and auxiliary services.
While the ax of the sizing plan hangs which in a year will cause Sardinia to lose over forty autonomies. It will therefore happen that, in schools with fewer than 961 pupils in 2024-'25, and with fewer than 949 and 938 to follow, merging will be arranged , and a single director will have to deal with several institutes, up to ten and even twenty .
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