In Messina and its province, as in the rest of Italy, school leaders are trying to “rekindle” internet connections with autonomous solutions. But in several institutes the secretariats are still blocked and the multimedia boards remain offline. While there are those who already miss the old paper register. The mix-up in Messina could now take on the contours of a political case. The “lack” leads to Palazzo Chigi, but councilor Alessandro Russo asks for solutions by bringing the issue closer to Palazzo Zanca.
The representative of the Democratic Party wrote to the mayor Federico Basile, the school councilor Stello Vadalà and the minors’ guarantor Giovanni Amante asking that the Municipality take charge of the problem. «Testimonies have been received – writes Russo – from Messina teachers and school secretariat workers who tell a highly worrying picture: the sudden lack of internet coverage is being addressed with recourse to the personal cell phone connections of teachers, secretarial workers and in at least a couple of cases even students. A truly horrific and stunning picture. Schools that navigate in difficult economic conditions will not be able to face the costs of reactivation, effectively adding potential discrimination in the exercise of the right to education”.
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