Valditara, most protests in schools have no rational basis

"Discussion in a democracy is fundamental, which is why I have valorised the student councils which are representative of all Italian students. It is false that there has been a decrease in resources allocated to the school in these 4 years. In the budget law of two years ago the increase was 9% and in the last one the increase was 1.7%. It is equally false to say that resources have been cut to the school and allocated to weapons: the resources allocated to defense are the result of an intervention by the European Commission which allowed the restrictions to be waived of the Stability Pact for military defense needs. These resources could not be allocated to the school and were not taken away from the school". Thus begins a long video by the Minister of Education Giuseppe Valditara on social media.

"Most of the protests taking place in recent days have no rational basis, let's discuss, let's discuss but let's start from real data and not deceive the students", continues the minister who then specifies on school construction: "we have come from 60 years of neglect. From 2011 to 2022, 6 billion have been invested. From 2022 to today, therefore in four years, we have allocated 5 billion and 161 million from this government; other resources will be in the next months; I asked the Minister of Economy Giorgietti to include other funds in the next budget law. Thanks to national funds and Pnrr (10 billion) we have been able to redevelop 25% of Italian schools and we have intervened for school buildings in over 30% of Italian schools.

We will continue in this direction."