Opposition barricades on the 'common sense reform' which, according to Giorgia Meloni, redesigns a school 'that integrates without giving up the rules'. A measure of pure propaganda, for the broad field, which disputes the rationale of the decree and lines up behind the flag of the Quirinale, for "a school open to all", according to art. 34 of the Constitution. "It is a shameful decree, which tries to hide behind a new ideological flag the government's inability to provide answers to the concrete problems of public schools. The school is open to all, as our Constitution says", the secretary of the Democratic Party Elly Schlein is indignant. "The government's response is to kick foreign children out of class. But who do they think they are kidding? After 4 years of cuts and no serious investment in school buildings, they are inventing a new witch hunt on the little ones, marking them as targets", denounces the Dem leader. Even the M5s sinks: "Meloni and Valditara have put down on paper an unworthy, inapplicable and top-down ideological advert. It is clear that they have no idea how a real school works. What should school principals do? Will they close the doors in the faces of the children of the neighbourhood? Will they rent dedicated school buses to deport redundant students from one part of the city to another? The government places yet another propaganda mess on the shoulders of the principals and the Municipalities, which will have to manage exclusion rankings, logistical chaos and a mountain of appeals to the TAR".
Riccardo Magi, leader of +Europa, replies to the Prime Minister, who is surprised by a left that is against the ban on the burqa and niqab at school, where "one goes openly", replies: "the disgusting school decree which invents the urgent threat of the Islamization of our society, so much so that we have to make a decree law, is a concentration of racism and ignorance, in fact inapplicable, the result of the vulgar propaganda of Meloni in tow of Vannacci, which does not help the secularity of society, but favors school dropout at most." "An unworthy propaganda on the skin of boys and girls", adds Nicola Fratoianni, secretary of the Italian Left, while for Angelo Bonelli, spokesperson for Green Europe, "Giorgia Meloni's electoral propaganda made on the skin of children has begun, while the real problems of the Italian public school remain totally unresolved". General Vannacci, former head of the League's schools, ends up in the opposition's sights, forcing the prime minister to run after her, now in the middle of the electoral campaign. "The government is too busy chasing Vannacci with a propaganda decree", denounces the dem senator Cecilia D'Elia.
Raffaella Paita (Iv) and Daniela Ruffino (Action) agree with a legislative decree "of little substance" and "written with an eye to Vannacci". But for Futuro Nazionale, if anything, this is nothing more than a "make-up operation". Rossano Sasso, head of the party's school, rejects it unreservedly: "We had asked for a serious law, not the usual fluff of the fake right, not the usual moderate timidity. The National Future resolution approved in the Chamber shows the way. We are waiting for them at the gate in Parliament".
