May Day, those who do not work do not eat
May Day, those who do not work do not eat

Video: May Day, those who do not work do not eat

Video: May Day, those who do not work do not eat
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We would not like to, but we are all parties to the dispute. The news regarding the town of Pessano con Bornago, Milan ("your parents don't pay - 34 schoolchildren removed their meals"), I say right away, makes me quite horrified. Maybe I'm a father. I am ashamed of a system that, in the inadequacy of the means it has given itself, garrulously chooses to hit the weakest: is the payment of the child's school canteen delayed? It doesn't matter if "some are on layoffs, some have been fired, others are foreigners" - the system has no mercy, and takes food out of the mouths of children. Not to all, of course, to those who don't pay; for these, no canteen. And it doesn't matter, I said, if some families actually struggle to make ends meet; the mayor is anxious to say that "someone is taking advantage of it", and denies lunch to compulsory school children. Differentiating them, even physically, from those who are luckier and able to afford the straight line, forcing them to return home, inflicting on these little ones the sign of diversity. Look, these are perverse mechanisms, and paradoxically it happens in school, where the dynamics of childhood coexistence should be a matter of course. I am horrified and ashamed of this. Not to mention the few children who cannot go home for lunch, and remain at school without eating: some teachers have given up their meal, in order to allow the children to access the canteen. I am incredulous in front of this Dickensian scenario in the middle of 2009, in Italy.

He says: but listen, these are costs, they are taxes that must be paid. There is no doubt; and if someone takes advantage of the evident slowness in debt collection, this must be pursued in some way; what we cannot, what we must not allow is the eternal recourse to the care of the effect, and not of the cause. In such a delicate, fragile field such as that of education, the introduction of draconian measures is crazy and unfair, above all because it is evident, here, that in the impossibility of asserting a valid right (the right of the supplier of meals to be paid) a huge one is compressed, the right of children to live a school life worthy of a civilized country; in essence, the legal instruments are non-existent, and that same res publica incapable of giving itself a serious judicial system to protect a service, finds it much easier to interrupt that service.

And in any case, the point cannot be reduced to a problem of compulsory collection. If, as I believe, it is a question of objective difficulties facing many families, the crowd of politicians who fill the mouth of the word family with each election should, seriously, change records. I got tired beyond the sayable of hearing the word family decline in every way, and then witnessing filthies like that of a community that does not meet the most basic needs of the family: school is one of them. And at school, children are fed.

Regardless of the happy ending.

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