BOLZANO. “The case of the exclusion from a German-language school in the autonomous province of Bolzano of a child, following a language testcomes into conflict with the constitutional principles which provide for the provision of scholastic education without limits and not conditioned by any preventive test and it seems serious that this happened in the context of a compulsory school”. This was declared by the group leader of FdI in the House Constitutional Affairs Committee Alessandro Urzi.
In South Tyrol the principle of teaching in the mother tongue (German, Italian or Ladin) applies. However, especially in urban centres, German-speaking schools also register a large influx of pupils who are not native German speakers. “For this I turned to the Minister for Education and Merit valditara – adds Urzì – to solicit a profound reflection also at a national level on what happened and to ascertain the responsibilities and consequences of this act”.
Urzì declares “it is appreciable that the South Tyrolean councilor himself for the German language school Philipp Achammer declared the procedure followed inadmissible. In any case, the theme – underlines Urzì – follows the request, also inadmissible, made by the councilor Ramoser of the SVP to the Municipality of Bolzano for generalized access tests for Italian-speaking children who request enrollment in German-language schools ” .
“The theme – concludes Urzì – is to commit ourselves to ensuring that Italian-language schools guarantee the widest offer of teaching in German by offering themselves as a place of education for the complete training, even multilingual, of the students, guaranteeing a full response to all questions In this sense, the appeal to Minister Valditara to study in concert with the local authorities the most extensive training and recruitment of multilingual teaching staff suitable for the South Tyrolean request”, concludes Urzì.