Class Cancelled at Levi in ​​Portici: Students Without School

Portici. Too few to form a second class, and the Carlo Levi School di arcade asked students and families to find alternatives.

During the first year, according to the parents of the students, the class made up of only 8 students there were no problems and indeed, the teaching staff had reassured the students' families by pointing out that given the small number they would work better than in a large class.

Yet, on August 03, 2021, the school sent an email to parents informing them that the class could not be formed because the CSA: Territorial school office of Naples, has not given the right staffing, and therefore invites the students to move to another school address, or ask for permission to change institute.

A mother of one of the students left without a class intervenes on the issue and reconstructs the entire story step by step.
“In June the school informally informed us that the CSA had not granted the actual staffing for that class,” says one of the students’ mothers, “so together with a group of mothers we decided to stop by the school office, but they didn’t receive us.

We therefore write a PEC email addressed to the regional and provincial school office and to the school, and attach a request signed by all parents in which we ask the reason for this cancellation, pointing out that during the previous school year 8 students were enough to form a class.

And now? What has changed? We never got an answer and we thought everything had been resolved, and instead - the mother of one of the students then specifies - I would like to point out that this applied sciences course has the particularity, for the first two years, of having 2 more hours per week, in which the students do a second foreign language: Spanish in addition to English.

This particularity of the second language for the two-year period is also certified in the school's PTOF, therefore at the time of enrollment the students chose this school and not others in the area for this particularity.

Furthermore, there is also an aggravating factor: the schools in the Vesuvian area equipped with applied science sections, in times of covid-19 and already virtually overcrowded, would never accept 8 students and therefore not only would the children be forced to change teachers, but also classmates, a detail that would cause negative psychological consequences in adolescence for the latter.

We parents would be forced to buy all the books again since, generally, they are valid for the two-year period.”

The mother then clarifies another essential point of the story: “During the school year there were other registrations and the children reached 12, but between requests for responses and failures they returned, as of today, August 2021, to being the 8 who started.

So, we parents and the kids, who not only do not want to separate, but want to go to high school and take the same subjects they started last year, including Spanish, ask ourselves and ask the CSA: Why did they allow us to start with 8 last year and not for the 2021/2022 school year?
There were 8 and there are still 8 today - concludes the mother of one of the students - otherwise she should not have accepted the class even last year!

At least the students would have met other friends and teachers directly, and we parents would not have faced the expense of books, which is no small thing, and which at this time would be useless for the new and hypothetical scholastic path.”