Male Gential Tattooing

A major contribution in Afghanistan

La mia amica e collega Alessandra Paganardi , poetessa e insegnante di lettere, ha scritto una pregevole riflessione, prendendo spunto da un post di poche pretese che avevo pubblicato qui  e condiviso su Facebook. Si parlava di voti scolastici, studenti stressati, genitori ansiosi... Il suo commento è stato così ricco e denso che, con il suo permesso, lo pubblico qui, facendone un guest post  (spero solo il primo di molti) di cui sono a dir poco lieta e orgogliosa!

La scuola superiore copre un arco molto lungo, anche senza contare le eventuali ripetenze. Si entra quasi bambini, e many of the males are very, very different and of course it comes out even more autonomous, more unsustainable fferenti a necessarily rigid rules. Subject to the formality of signing the warrants to "age" (often mere legalization of lax bigiata) rules are exactly the same in almost 14 years and 20 or more. same checks, same prohibitions, the same unhealthy environments that often barely have time to go to the toilet in six hours, the same turnover of material which requires in a single day to be ready on Kant, Manzoni, Shakespeare, electromagnetism and derivatives.
A heavy curriculum where the teacher must create a miracle to transform heterogeneous classes, and with great motivation tips, detachments in almost homogeneous, culturally or fake agguerritissimi such. This is in view of a state exam increasingly cybernetic and delicate, which will be judged by his own work, often done under the limits of the general crisis of nerves and you can tell by the frequency, of course increasing with the increase of the commitments of panic attacks, sick leave policy, suicidal youth more or less authentic, turnover of ambulances to school psychologists, social workers, the projects run by charities and discomfort many advocates of youth. The school increasingly resembles a psychiatric hospital instead of a place of shared culture and education ordered. forgot that it is often the teacher himself having to improvise a social worker, having to chase away the eternal student, fatally slowing squeezing the willing and capable. How can we expect young people to maintain a high level of interest and constant attention to five years in such conditions? The class in high school, for example, even exaggerated importance, it depends directly on the performance and peace of mind of many, so that the teacher is often compelled to stop teaching to quell the tensions that arise in the classroom ( I always tell them that a class is like a mountain climber: it takes the first climber, but we do not all one step too far, to avoid jeopardizing the excursion). But on closer scrutiny, as they could not generate tension in an environment so unnaturally claustrophobic? Well, the class group, the university, there is simply more, the boy, especially if he has not had the good fortune of having a family behind educationally and culturally aware, who has supported and helped us to understand the reality around him, instead of pushing it to a sterile docimological success that will do little good, has a precise sense of having thrown away at least five years learning the rules, concepts and strategies useless. Possible that there is a form of transition and adaptation driven, a bit 'smarter, from adolescence to adulthood? Or we want to continue to tell us about prolonged adolescence canard, canard that may in some ways convenient for us adults, but then delivered to the country several thirty-something cowardly and, perhaps for this reason, hopelessly unemployed?

(photo davidsilver )