Sophie, too younger to enroll in a four-year highschool

(ANSA) – BARI, MAY 30 – Sophie will end center college in a number of days, with very excessive grades (says her father), and has determined to enroll within the four-year scientific highschool in utilized sciences, however has found that she won’t be able to take action for a bureaucratic hitch launched by a 2019 rule. She is in actual fact early however, in contrast to a lot of her classmates who’re additionally early and have already registered, she won’t flip 14 by 30 April 2025 (she’s going to flip 14 in September) as supplies the norm. You’ll subsequently must enroll in a standard highschool the place this block doesn’t exist. It is a bureaucratic paradox, explains her father Francesco, as a result of my daughter, “regardless of having attended the identical 8-year coaching course on the Istituto Margherita in Bari (an equal coaching institute of excellence with over 125 years of historical past), with most efficiency and tutorial advantage, I won’t be able to enroll within the course she has chosen like different classmates, who, being 14 years outdated, will as a substitute do what she is denied.” “All this – says the daddy – as a result of a “clarification be aware” issued by a ministerial supervisor 5 years in the past (not a decree nor a ministerial round) wished to slim down the variety of members not on the premise of capability however of age”. The household spoke with the supervisor of the regional college workplace, the “very understanding and comprehensible” managers of the highschool, attorneys, and wrote (with licensed e-mail) to the ministry, to the Minister of Advantage Valditara and to his head of cupboard, with out acquiring no response apart from the casual recommendation to enchantment to the TAR. It must be famous, the scholar’s father factors out, “that final yr a boy from Capua graduated at 16, early like my daughter, however solely as a result of at his institute they did not understand that he ought to have been 17… ” (ANSA).