A closure decided to avoid empty classrooms and hours spent without carrying out the program, given a school year that started a day early.
It is with the sole "educational and non-religious choice" that the school board of the Iqbal Masih of Pioltello, in the Milan area, voted again unanimously to close it on the occasion of the celebration for the end of Ramadan, on April 10th.
The choice therefore fell on the revision of the resolution for the suspension of lessons, declared irregular by the regional school office last week.
The change concerned the underlining of the sole didactic motivation underlying the decision, linked to the numerous foreseeable absences, defined as incomplete in the first draft by the Minister of Education Giuseppe Valditara himself.
Around 7pm today, the teaching council of the comprehensive institute which welcomes around 1300 students, including elementary and middle school, voted first, followed by the approval of the institute council.
The first resolution to be contested at the highest levels was voted on in May 2023. When the news became public following the declaration of the Northern League MEP Silvia Sardone, the case became the subject of heated political exchanges.
The same happened among the parents of the students who attend Masih, some absolutely agree with the suspension of lessons, others decidedly against, without this being linked to their respective religious faith.
Even the three parish priests of Pioltello, two days ago, in a letter defined the choice of school as "legitimate and consistent with the characteristics of the local reality".
However, the inspectors sent by the ministry had found technical defects in the resolution, including the absence of an educational motivation, which would have justified its validity.
The head teacher Alessandro Fanfoni, who had been subjected to insults and threats for a week, was then asked to "evaluate the non-application of the resolution and the possibility of its annulment".
Today the school board has therefore filled those "gaps", effectively responding to the sender's complaints.
Outside the Institute, representatives of the Flc, CGIL and Milan Chamber of Labor unions gathered in support of the teachers and the council.
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