The story is very simple:. After all, this is a new, small, fierce story, a story of brave men who get to go to war to children. And it's one of those easy wars in which certain directors of the League ( the party which wants a separation from Italy)try to distort the beautiful face of the north and stain the generosity of the Venetians on the pretext of good administration. Perhaps it would be a "New Adro" - this story - if Fossalta di Piave solidarity with the parents (who went to school in protest), the teachers and school staff had not been against the decisions of the mayor and the school director. It would certainly be incredible if were not the testimony of the parents, the official documents and even the words of those directly involved.
Here's what happened. In kindergarten, "The Magic Flute" Fossalta di Piave (part of the Institute including Meolo) - a lovely school with teachers and five games out ,very respectable - there is a child of African origin (we call it Hope although this is not her name). Hope he has a family poor but happy. The working-class father, the mother who takes care of the children: he works in the industries of the area, they do not miss the bread. Hope has four siblings: two younger than her, the two older, already in elementary school. When she enters school age can not enroll in school, because no place: the school can accommodate only fifty children. This year, Hope's mother (we'll call Mary, although this is not his name) has time to receive good news and a terrible blow. The good news is that Hope will finally get to school because there is place for her. Goes to full-time, soon learns Italian, integrates, helps his family - and the mother is expressed in very few words and verbs in the infinitive - to join our community . But then comes the shock: the father of Hope, after losing his job and not be able to find a new one, choose to emigrate to Belgium, where they promised a job for sure. He does, and small foreign family begins to crumble. It was he who spoke in a fluent Italian, he kept his relationships with other parents in the school. Maria is one: the money coming from Belgium are very few compared to the needs of five children. The children of elementary school have lunch and have a full time, but Hope in her new class, (although with the preferential tariff) must still pay fifty euro per month. If they have to tighten their belts are still a lot of money. And so Mary is directed to social services in the municipality, that answer they can not intervene to help her.
In the meantime (just a week ago), the teachers of the school come up with a solution: each of them will give up once a week in which she is entitled to lunch (at work) and will transfer to the child. It 'a gesture of solidarity pragmatic, discreet. Enter into, the two school employees, is in agreement with the religion teacher who comes once a week. In an institution where you are and where they eat 60 meals 50 children, in fact, the advance would be enough food each day (and advance) for all. But the teachers want that there are no irregularities, and so make do: one day one of them goes home before, another day brings a sandwich, another skip the jokes that do well on the line .
But here ends the good side of the story and the play begins surreal and grotesque. Mayor Massimo Sensini League (which has been informed by the social services and the director) learns that the solution has been found and goes on a rampage. Convene the director of the district, Simonetta Murri and explains that "they are guilty of serious irregularities." He takes a pen and paper and writes his own hand a letter which read sentences like this: "It should be noted that the staff (the school, ed.) May not assign his meal without incurring a loss of revenue for the municipality of Fossalta Piave. In short, the Administrator Sensini, the teachers who are deprived of a meal to eat a girl of four years, are akin to thieves who steal to the City of public goods. The director supports the decision, and in turn draws up a service order whose meaning is: "If this attitude will be repeated the charge will be reported to the administrator." With this procedure, the teachers and risk disciplinary action, suspension from teaching. And they do not want to talk. Mary was informed that should appear to take Hope to 12.00 and not more than 16.00. The child is forced to skip the full-time and away from her classmates. Maria does what she was told, and two days ago, the baby starts crying in class when the mother takes her to bring her home. Yesterday, the parents requested a meeting with Director of the Institute to ask you to resolve the situation.
But the Director says: "Unfortunately I agree with the warning that the mayor did." Questions like the judge's letter and she will respond: "I found it ironic. And useful. " But in what sense? The Murri is an example: "If you have a house given you by the town you can not sublet to third parties, you know? It 's a crime. If you are entitled to a meal from the dining room can not give those who pass. " Try to suggest to the Director that the child is not a person who "passes". The Murri does not accept the idea: "But you see, this is a principle: the solution was serious and damaging. If we all want the free meal What can we do? ". I ask whether he has received other requests: "For now, no. But could not reach many, we are in times of crisis. " Try to ask if she thinks that the fact that the child is outside the EU has resulted in the decision of the board: "I think not. Indeed, this affair is the best guarantee of good faith of the mayor: the child is treated as any Italian would be treated. " Remains still in disbelief and looking for the mayor Sensini, born in 1951. But he does not answer and calls you back. Too bad. After all, this is a simple story, a little story of ordinary ferocity. But an end - thankfully - has not yet been written.
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