Driving standards, fines and value assessments: Italy applies strict measures from primary school

In Italy, the majority accepts reform to tighten school rules, citing the deterioration of the climate in schools as the reason.

Driving grade regains importance in school in Italy. She will play a central role from primary to secondary school. This reform is part of a text that increases measures of solidity in the school. The score will be out of 10. In middle and high school, for students who get 5 or less, this will mean repeating a year. In high school especially, a low grade of 6 out of 10 is not enough. The teenager must pass a type of detention session in September, with questions about the main values ​​of the Constitution, such as civic education in France. And this mark will count for the baccalaureate.

The Minister of Education justifies this new development by saying that the climate in the school is getting worse. He emphasizes figures according to which attacks in schools more than doubled last year compared to the previous year. In addition, the law also provides for a fine of up to 10,000 euros for families whose students or parents attack teachers.

Beyond the driving stage, in primary school, there is another change. Assessments will no longer be limited to achievements and progress to be made. Instead, judgments return a value: sufficient, fair or excellent. By this law, the return of is “responsibility” you “respect” at school, according to most. he is “step back”replied the opposition.

The text comes after the deputies accepted another very difficult bill: the security bill, which must now pass the Senate. Among other measures, it removes prison sentences for pregnant women, gives jail time to protesters who block the road during sit-ins, and calls for foreigners to have papers to get a simple SIM card.

The opposition demonstrated on Wednesday 25 September against this bill. But she will have to see the trains go by, two years after the election of the still popular Giorgia Meloni. The left only won on one issue: access to Italian nationality. There is a blood law and 10 years of continuous presence in the country must be naturalized. A petition to reduce this date to five years has just reached the number of signatures required to hold a referendum.