«The use of the t-shirt with the logo, at the nursery school, had been strongly requested by parents already in 2021, just as it had already been in use for several years at the two primary schools in via Buscaglia and via Sestu».
The president of the board of the Institute Michela Melis replies on the case of the nursery school in via Temo in Elmas where the head teacher announced the adoption, for the next school year, of the uniform to replace the traditional apron .
«In the several years from 2021 to the moment in which the Institute Council, with resolution number 155 of 17 May 2024, voted for the use of the uniform, several years have passed, a time in which several polls were opened among the various classes of the nursery school to get an opinion on what the parents might prefer – explains Melis -. In all these years from 2021 to today, the positive outcome of the majority has always emerged to replace the apron with a uniform and not the other way around."
On the composition of the uniform « it would be good to make a clarification that better understands what was a choice evaluated and considered well over time. The t-shirts in the two primary schools mentioned above varied in color from year to year, when a new primary class was formed the color was chosen and then carried throughout the 5 years of schooling, as well as to childhood from which the t-shirt with the the school logo for the hot periods (September, October, May, June)".
«With the current resolution – he adds – it was chosen by virtue of an economic aspect to use a single color for all classes, starting from three-year-olds to five-year-olds, so that the t-shirts can be left to brothers/sisters, friends or any other person. The summer t-shirts were already in use, with different shades as explained, so what was done is to standardize the color for the summer ones and choose to remove the apron and replace it with the long-sleeved t-shirt , the use of a sweatshirt with logo for when they go out in the garden or for educational trips. In the estimates we made before coming to the vote, the costs are around 5 euros per long-sleeved t-shirt and around 15 euros for the sweatshirt , so summing up the figures are much further from those that have been reported and more lower than those of a single apron found on the market. Over time we have tried to bring about the use of the t-shirt not only for its practicality, for the economic aspect but also last but not least, because in 2024 we will stick to the use of a blue apron for males and a pink one for females, (as the market wants) amplifies the gender differences , and we, as members of the Institute Council and parents, also give a lot of importance to this issue, and it is right to eliminate and not amplify anything that does not guarantee accessibility and inclusiveness for every single student in every aspect."
Then "all the hard work we have done and continue to do for all the schools of the Monsignor Saba State Comprehensive Institute" is reiterated.
(Unioneonline)