Valditara: «The history manual of Laterza indoctrinates students, it should be withdrawn»

The manual published by Laterza «contains completely instrumental and unreliable statements. I believe that it is in the publisher's own interest, to safeguard the scientific reputation of his publishing house, to withdraw a text which from a scientific point of view is completely inadequate and which risks being functional to the indoctrination of students". The Minister of Education Giuseppe Valditara, with these words, intervenes on the history manual Trame del tempo 3, against which Fratelli d'Italia presented a parliamentary question, contesting the judgments on the Meloni government, described in continuity with the fascist legacy.

Valditara spoke about it on the sidelines of a meeting with the students of the Goffredo Mameli middle school in Milan, underlining that the Laterza manual, co-authored by Caterina Ciccopiedi, Valentina Colombi, Carlo Greppi and Marco Meotto, had already sparked several controversies. In a passage of the text - on sale on book platforms intended for high schools - the Meloni government is spoken of as an executive that "stands out in the implementation of clearly liberticidal measures".

The paragraph in question also states that the current government «came to power for the first time a century after the March on Rome and seventy-seven years after the Liberation from fascism» and that it is «the party that has inherited its legacy and continues to have a close relationship with its openly fascist “base”. Hence Valditara's utterances: «Frankly», Valditara commented this morning, «I think that representing this government as a government that deports immigrants by putting them on the blacklist, a fascist government or whatever is not good for anyone».