Schools, teachers, kids and parents. Education in general.
#826
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Just been reading the Corriere and found this interesting article on schools (its been translated thank goodness )
http://www.corriere.it/International...ool-back.shtml
hope the link works.
http://www.corriere.it/International...ool-back.shtml
hope the link works.
#827
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Got back from il reunione, excuse spelling!! It started at 5.30 and Antonia was with me...
Anyway, useful, seem like a nice load of parents! All very chatty and little angst. The nuns are very dry humoured too and I think they are on the right track - be interesting to see how Inglese goes tomorrow with a secular teacher! Completely threw me when they said the Lord's Prayer at the start!
Anyway some of you would spit blood if you saw the Media where the meeting was held! Completely renovated, all spotless, classroom had AV with a hook up for laptop presentations, which the diretrice did on a Sony Vaio...why is it strange to see Nun use a mike and a PC? It is though!!
Anyway, useful, seem like a nice load of parents! All very chatty and little angst. The nuns are very dry humoured too and I think they are on the right track - be interesting to see how Inglese goes tomorrow with a secular teacher! Completely threw me when they said the Lord's Prayer at the start!
Anyway some of you would spit blood if you saw the Media where the meeting was held! Completely renovated, all spotless, classroom had AV with a hook up for laptop presentations, which the diretrice did on a Sony Vaio...why is it strange to see Nun use a mike and a PC? It is though!!
#828
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Ok Testa - am spitting blood
I always find it funny when I see 4 nuns in a car - dont know why - just makes me giggle
I always find it funny when I see 4 nuns in a car - dont know why - just makes me giggle
#829
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Christmas about 5 of them crammed into a mini after the regita! There was a lot of fussing and elbowing going on! Very funny!
You could live in the Media! It was beautiful, seriously! It must've been decorated over the summer. All the floors were new looking - it looked brand new - maybe the nuns do it over the summer for something to do!!
You could live in the Media! It was beautiful, seriously! It must've been decorated over the summer. All the floors were new looking - it looked brand new - maybe the nuns do it over the summer for something to do!!
#830
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I got cut up by 4 nuns in a Panda a while ago... how can you hoot your horn at nuns??!!
There is one classroom used by the third year at H's scuola media with a multi-media board... H went there yesterday after he was hassled by the Religion teacher as to why he didn't 'just' do religion... *sigh* I've told him to politely tell her next time she says anything that he doesn't do it because the Presida recommended that he go elsewhere and do extra work in Grammar to help with him speaking Italian as a foreign language. I do get tired of explianing it to teachers when she was the one who said that as we were not religious it would be better. Goes to show who actually runs the schools here....and it ain't her!! He got to sit in another lesson with some third years and do his italian homework instead.
Julia is at school from 8.30-4.40 monday to thursday and finishes at 3.50 on fridays. H is there 7.50-4pm Monday, weds, thurs and finishes before lunch at 1.20 on tuesdays and fridays. I've made it clear that those 'free' arvos are for homework so it takes the pressure off our weekends...
There is one classroom used by the third year at H's scuola media with a multi-media board... H went there yesterday after he was hassled by the Religion teacher as to why he didn't 'just' do religion... *sigh* I've told him to politely tell her next time she says anything that he doesn't do it because the Presida recommended that he go elsewhere and do extra work in Grammar to help with him speaking Italian as a foreign language. I do get tired of explianing it to teachers when she was the one who said that as we were not religious it would be better. Goes to show who actually runs the schools here....and it ain't her!! He got to sit in another lesson with some third years and do his italian homework instead.
Julia is at school from 8.30-4.40 monday to thursday and finishes at 3.50 on fridays. H is there 7.50-4pm Monday, weds, thurs and finishes before lunch at 1.20 on tuesdays and fridays. I've made it clear that those 'free' arvos are for homework so it takes the pressure off our weekends...
#831
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You're lucky Indie - my son has to go on Saturday morning and its a right pain in the arse Seems each school decides whether to do Sats or not - in our village we tried to ask the teachers if they could do more afternoons and not Saturday but they didnt want to know
(off with my bike now to collect my car - yippee ......and its not raining )
(off with my bike now to collect my car - yippee ......and its not raining )
#832
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Am I the only one who has kids that come out of school at 12.30 on most days?
I get tired of wondering about what to give them for lunch and later something different for dinner - and thank goodness they're not picky eaters.
I also set the alarm on my 'phone to 12 if I'm out and about down in town or somewhere so I know it's time to get moving.
I get tired of wondering about what to give them for lunch and later something different for dinner - and thank goodness they're not picky eaters.
I also set the alarm on my 'phone to 12 if I'm out and about down in town or somewhere so I know it's time to get moving.
#833
Re: Schools, teachers, kids and parents. Education in general.
The schools in my town, a frazione and the next town are all under the same 'instituto' (one of the things that would have been quite difficult to change school for H in the past) and therefore it depends on what you want. The school in the frazione offers no lunches and sat mornings and two 'rientrares' a week. The other scuola media in the next town has a heavy musical leaning and if you choose to send your child there they get to learn an instrument and do less technical education. In that way it works quite well but you do need a car as a parent if you want to exercise full-choice.
#834
Re: Schools, teachers, kids and parents. Education in general.
Forgot to add a little story H told me yesterday... he was there all day and they went for lunch. the teacher sent them off to the loos to wash their hands. H squirted the soap dispenser and got out....... urine!!!!! He told the teacher who said that they don't supply soap and if you want to use it then they will need to bring in their own.... how the hell did wee wee get into the soap dispenser though??? That's what we wanted to know.... I'm going to get him some hand sanitiser but I've told him to try and touch things in the loos as little as possible!!
That's the thing about Italy sometimes... there's no sense of collective responsibility... bring your own everything and make sure you're alright and stuff anyone else....
That's the thing about Italy sometimes... there's no sense of collective responsibility... bring your own everything and make sure you're alright and stuff anyone else....
#835
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Yak !
Who the hell pisssed in the soap dispenser?
Who the hell pisssed in the soap dispenser?
#836
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H said that if they had actually pissed in it then they would have had to have climbed on the sink..... the mind boggles doesn't it!!?? We did have quite a giggle imagining boys balancing on the sink after we'd stopped gagging .... pity boys don't ever put some of this 'genius' into getting all their work done properly eh??!!
#837
Re: Schools, teachers, kids and parents. Education in general.
I've just read that article Patty.
The number of non-compliant school buildings is shocking.
This next bit is something we have all known for years :
Pay is one of teachers’ main worries. The economic package froze seniority increments for three years and it is likely that those increments will never be paid. Ms Gelmini has said that they will be replaced by merit-related increases. Here, the problem is how to develop and implement a system to identify deserving teachers, and where to find the money to pay them.
The number of non-compliant school buildings is shocking.
This next bit is something we have all known for years :
Pay is one of teachers’ main worries. The economic package froze seniority increments for three years and it is likely that those increments will never be paid. Ms Gelmini has said that they will be replaced by merit-related increases. Here, the problem is how to develop and implement a system to identify deserving teachers, and where to find the money to pay them.
#838
Re: Schools, teachers, kids and parents. Education in general.
I've just read that article Patty.
The number of non-compliant school buildings is shocking.
This next bit is something we have all known for years :
Pay is one of teachers’ main worries. The economic package froze seniority increments for three years and it is likely that those increments will never be paid. Ms Gelmini has said that they will be replaced by merit-related increases. Here, the problem is how to develop and implement a system to identify deserving teachers, and where to find the money to pay them.
The number of non-compliant school buildings is shocking.
This next bit is something we have all known for years :
Pay is one of teachers’ main worries. The economic package froze seniority increments for three years and it is likely that those increments will never be paid. Ms Gelmini has said that they will be replaced by merit-related increases. Here, the problem is how to develop and implement a system to identify deserving teachers, and where to find the money to pay them.
#839
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If you are born here to both non-Italian parents you are also non-Italian.
My Tunisian neighbours have 3 kids born here and they are all on a permesso di soggiorno. Not a sniff of Italian citizenship. I think the eldest can apply when she is 18 but I'm not sure if her dad has to get it first.
My Tunisian neighbours have 3 kids born here and they are all on a permesso di soggiorno. Not a sniff of Italian citizenship. I think the eldest can apply when she is 18 but I'm not sure if her dad has to get it first.
#840
Re: Schools, teachers, kids and parents. Education in general.
If you are born here to both non-Italian parents you are also non-Italian.
My Tunisian neighbours have 3 kids born here and they are all on a permesso di soggiorno. Not a sniff of Italian citizenship. I think the eldest can apply when she is 18 but I'm not sure if her dad has to get it first.
My Tunisian neighbours have 3 kids born here and they are all on a permesso di soggiorno. Not a sniff of Italian citizenship. I think the eldest can apply when she is 18 but I'm not sure if her dad has to get it first.