“There is a very strong link between the pockets of young people who drop out of school and the hordes of teenagers who fuel juvenile crime, it is not possible that there are still shootings in Caivano and in Piazza Sanità in Naples, right in the city center.
In this last case, the shooting took place in the same place where Genny Cesarano was killed at just 17 years old on September 6, 2015. The tightening of the measures against school dropouts contained in the Decree approved four days ago by the Government is a decisive step towards fighting educational poverty”.
MEP Chiara Gemma (FdI-Ecr) says this in a note. “I am trying, with my work in the prison of Santa Maria Capua Vetere, to mend the ties between imprisoned fathers and their children, so that parents who are already serving their sentences can tell their children that the reality of crime does not pay,” says Gemma, adding that “often the temptation to enter the sick world of the street is also the result of an ideological “legacy” that is passed down through the generations.”
"We need to break the link between old and new crime. This is why next week I will be back in the prison of Santa Maria Capua Vetere to continue my project. Education and compulsory schooling are mechanisms of emancipation, but according to data from the Ministry of Education, Istat and Invalsi, in Italy school dropout rates are among the highest in Europe, 12,7%, after Romania and Spain.
Despite the progress we are still far from the 9% target by 2030 set by the European Union. In Campania the percentage rises to 16,4.
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