There are prominent figures from the world of cinema, culture and entertainment among the signatories of an appeal to the Government and to the Minister of Education Giuseppe Valditara who asks to stop the "coup de main", i.e. a return to the past in school report cards primary school children and to maintain the current assessment based on the narrative of learning.
Among the first signatories of a petition promoted by the pedagogist Daniele Novara and the teacher Alex Corlazzo, include the names of Silvia Vegetti Finzi, Chiara Saraceno, Luca Zingaretti, Stefano Accorsi, Claudia Pandolfi, Pierfrancesco Favino, Claudia Gerini, Moni Ovadia and father Alex Zanotelli .
But in the evening Minister Valditara has his say: "I fear that some signatories of appeals do not know what they are signing against.
The government amendment on the reform of primary school evaluation does not eliminate the analytical description of the learning levels achieved in each discipline by the student, which is among other things fundamental for the portfolio and future activity of the tutor teachers. Rather, it eliminates synthetic, abstruse and incomprehensible judgments such as "advanced" or "in the process of first acquisition", replacing them with clear and understandable judgments, such as ' excellent' or 'insufficient'. Nothing is lost but it is improved by simplifying and clarifying".
The signatories of the appeal, launched on Change.org, point out that "it is not at all clear whether the expression 'synthetic judgments' will mean a return to '4,5, 6,7,8' or to 'poor, insufficient, sufficient'.
The current "report cards" certainly do not honor the idea put forward by the legislator in 2020 when it aimed for a "descriptive judgement" because they report an equally incomplete summary of a child's learning process but they are a positive achievement compared to the past when they prevailed numbers that crystallized the judgement", they write.
If the amendment to the bill goes through, it will be the fourth change starting from 2008: until that year, opinions were used, then votes were taken, in 2020 they were descriptive judgments have been introduced and now we will move on to synthetic judgments. Above all, the bill with the amendment concerning evaluation in elementary school reached the Senate Education Committee in November and, as the signatories of the petition point out, "risks becoming the Law of It happened so quickly that it did not allow for a serious comparison with the world of school."
Undersecretary Frassinetti, who was the first to support the opportunity to return to numerical grades, explains that "we have encountered many difficulties on the part of parents, especially foreigners, in understanding the current assessments in primary schools introduced by the Azzolina ordinance".
Mediation has ensured that the amendment that will be discussed in the next few days goes in the direction of restoring the "most usual and understandable" summary judgment, with assessments - as Valditara clarified - that will range from insufficient to excellent and which will be supported by description of the learning levels achieved in each individual discipline.
If the restoration of the summary judgment is liked by the Ugl school, it is criticized by the Flc CGIL but also by some members of the opposition.
"The reintroduction of summary assessments in primary schools desired by the right-wing government is in fact a return to the past, a regression that would set Italian schools back decades, with very heavy damage for inclusive schools and for the weakest children" , summarizes for everyone the Democratic Party senator Francesco Verducci.
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