"It's sad to see my words so seriously and instrumentally misunderstood by the Students' Union because my project, contrary to what is claimed, goes exactly in the direction of full integration that safeguards the learning times and quality of all students, without any ghettoisation. This is why I believe that the UdS's observations, which are expressed in gratuitously offensive tones, are very far from the reality of the facts".
Thus the Minister of Education Giuseppe Valditara on the proposals regarding classes for foreign students.
"My project, contrary to what is claimed - explains Minister Valditara - goes exactly in the direction of full integration that safeguards the learning times and quality of all students, without any ghettoisation. In fact, I declared that, in the case of children foreigners with significant deficits in Italian and mathematics, there can be two ways forward, also looking at the experiences of other European countries: temporary differentiated teaching, in accompaniment to ordinary lessons, only of the Italian language and possibly of mathematics, up to an adequate alignment with the skills already acquired by the rest of the class; or compulsory afternoon strengthening courses. I must also underline, as I have already stated, that these two hypotheses must first undergo the scrutiny of a broad comparison, with great attention to safeguarding school autonomy. For this reason, I believe that the UdS's observations, which were also expressed in gratuitously offensive tones, are very far from the reality of the facts, risking, among other things, contributing to a harmful exploitation of a delicate topic such as that of the centrality of the student, of all students", concludes Valditara.
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