No awkward questions. Also, they must be agreed upon in advance with the president's staff.
The meeting is scheduled for Friday, October 3rd, at the San Gavino municipal theater, but there is already controversy surrounding the announced meeting between the governor, Alessandra Todde, and the approximately 140 fifth-year students from the town's Marconi-Lussu secondary school and the Piga high school in Villacidro.
The political association Sardegna Chiama Sardegna has raised the issue, striking the blow after its spokespeople, Danilo Lampis and Cristiana Cacciapaglia, obtained an internal school document that provides strict guidelines on the questions that must be asked of Todde.
A summary sheet, according to the complaint, states that "students must be prepared" to avoid embarrassment. But it also states that, at the president's request , "no political questions or exploitation, no legal proceedings." It will be "necessary to focus on questions about issues that concern or concern them, possibly related to the local area, such as jobs and opportunities for young people, education and training, brain drain, renewable energy, youth services." And in any case, "the questions, once drafted, will be shared with the president's communications director."
"This approach is unacceptable," Cacciapaglia and Lampis accuse. "Schools should be a training ground for democracy, not a stage for political propaganda. Predicting which questions can and cannot be asked undermines students' freedom of thought, demeaning the very meaning of the meeting. It's not about teaching critical debate, but about training in a conformism that only serves to build a positive image of the president."
In this way, according to spokespeople for Sardegna Chiama Sardegna, "the gap between young people and politics is being fueled, when instead we should be bringing them closer to public debate and a sense of participation. We urge students and teachers to reflect and not lend themselves to this mechanism. If openness and freedom in the questions are not guaranteed,
