(Finance) – “On support for disabled students we are going towards a very dark school yearwith yet another record of substitutes called to fill around 100 thousand vacant positions”. This was declared today Marcello Pacificopresident of the Anief school union, regarding the innovations approved in the bill Simplificationwhich includes, among other things, the relevant opinion of the students’ families on the non-tenured support teacher to be appointed for the following school year.
“In addition to the inappropriate influence that is given to parents for the choice of temporary teachers – explains the president of the independent union – it is not clear why it is failed the stabilization of specialists included in the GPS: thus the first level support teachers will not be hired as of this year, despite the ad hoc amendment requested by Anief for the extension for the permanent hiring of GPS, pursuant to art. 59 also for the school year 2024/25 also on the subject. In one fell swoop merit crumblesgiving a low blow to the validity of the rankings of temporary staff, and the supplentite increases exponentiallyamong other things in the category, support, which has the highest number of substitutes in Italian schools”.
“The truth is that teaching continuity can only be achieved in one way: by hiring specialized teachers with Tfa and eliminating the plague of exceptional positions which today represent almost half of the support staff”, underlines Pacifico, proposing “let’s start specializing the 80 thousand teachers of support appointed every year without certified skills of special education, we approve a rule that allows automatic hiringno longer on an annual concession, of the specialize in support (which would also be useful for curricular teachers) directly from the first GPS band”.
The leader of Anief, who has always proposed stabilizing all support teachers on the 100 thousand positions currently assigned as substitute teachers, speaks of an “act of coherence to protect 340 thousand pupils who need maximum attention and teaching continuity, which is achieves this only in one way: by hiring specialized teachers”.
If no changes are made by Parliament to the draft approved by the Council of Ministers, Anief announces that he will challenge the implementing measures until you get to Constitutional Courtdue to its evident unconstitutionality, as well as updating the European institutions on an overall situation regarding support for disabled pupils which is worsening day by day.