(ANSA) - ROME, OCTOBER 13 - Protest of a group of parents from the Comprehensive Institute Via Luigi Rizzo in Rome, which includes the "GB
Vico" and "AB Cairoli"
Primary Schools
and the "L.
Ariosto ", in the Prati Trionfale district in Rome: due to the reduced hours - 4 hours - many parents find it very difficult to send their children to school." One month after the opening - they write in a letter to the Minister of Education - still only 4 hours a day, without canteen service.
From the week between 19 and 23 October there will be an extra hour "with the introduction of the canteen service, which will consist of cold baskets eaten in the classroom".
This situation is putting in difficulty many working parents with serious implications towards their employer;
furthermore, the persistence of reduced hours is damaging the right to study of children, provided for by art.
34 of the Constitution, since some parents are unable to organize themselves with work, having to go to pick up their child after only 4 hours in a city like Rome, where even just moving from one neighborhood to another needs some time ". Parents complain of being left pr information and that only after repeated requests were they made to know that they lack janitors, teachers and even a Director of General Services and an administrative assistant.
They also complain about a rebound of responsibility between the school director and the regional school office.
"We need immediate solutions so as not to have problems at work, in an already critical and fragile situation, and at the same time we want and demand the right to study for our children", they conclude.
(HANDLE).