Valditara denies clashes with the Quirinale and defends the proposal on the roof for foreigners in class

Absolutely not, there is no clash at the Quirinale. This is how the Minister of Education Giuseppe Valditara responded to a question from ANSA on Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's attacks on the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella on the "circulars" signed when he was minister. "Our initiative, as the President of the Republic said very well yesterday in Amatrice, goes in the direction of integration. We want foreign children who do not speak our language adequately to not be ghettoised", said the minister at the Italian Consulate in New York.

"The ghetto school", said the minister who will present the Global Initiative for Africa to the UN in the next few hours, "is when a student is marginalized compared to the rest of the community and therefore we do not want the Alabama schools of the 1950s, where on one side there were whites and on the other there were blacks".

The ceiling for foreigners in classes also applies to students from the European Union who do not speak Italian, he then specified: "If a Polish boy does not know Italian he cannot integrate. So, the problem is not ethnic origin, national origin, racial origin. The problem is the knowledge of our language", he added.