The high and steep staircase that leads to their house seems a metaphor for their lives. A bristling up, full of problems and, worse, infinite, as the story of Cosimo Leoci and his wife Claudia, temporary teachers from 23 years.
Cosimo, elementary school teacher, recounts his years spent in the "cauldron" of insecurity since 1989, consulting documents meticulously arranged in chronological order and tells how it is passed by a substitute in the other hope that with a contest or an advance on the list one day he breathed a sigh of relief. But no. "Now if the absence of a teacher shall not exceed 5 days, the head teacher is not required to call an alternate. Before it was not so in a year and doing a lot more supply teachers, even a single day. " Then finally a competition was held at the end of the nineties, "but I was a military and I could not participate." It goes on meanwhile, is expected to supply teachers and the family: "After nine years of engagement - he says his wife, a nursery school teacher - we decided to get married even though we had no certainty, and we waited a couple of years have also the first son, always hoping that something would change. Rather did not change anything! "
After two competitions (for nursery and primary school), after teaching qualification in English and after a significant advance in the ranking, the goal of contract indefinitely appeared close to Cosimo. But then came Mariastella: 2008 was not hired any more and many teachers have lost their own, just as is happening this year. For Cosimo, this means "23 years of insecurity thrown in air."
" Two years ago there seemed to be close to their goal - Claudia says - but the Gelmini has dropped his arms. It is not just relentlessly attacking an entire category. We have two children, and even if, with the help of parents, we have no mortgage, we still have the house to carry on. " Lead the m is nage family encompasses not only economic efforts, but also enormous organizational efforts: "Working with substitutions here and there - continues Claudia - do not have the day off and June and September are without pay. Usually, the first coming in December and wages must set them aside for the months ahead. We like ants in other words. The in-laws how they can help us, despite their health problems. " The worst time is summer, when everyone is on holiday, Cosimo and Claudia are just like ants, "as soon as school ends in May or June, we demand of unemployment. So just take a little more we put it aside. There are no travel, of course, and if we want a pizza on Saturday night we think twice about it. " With a smile also tells how the couple were fortunate to inherit a machine, object key to race from one school to another, from one runner who did not used anymore. "We will organize short. Every year is like a lottery. Expects the substitution by the circles and no one knows what happened and we do every year in September, we pray that God send us good. Unfortunately we do not see a rosy future. "
But, as you can well imagine, the discomfort is that pupils must keep changing teachers and their methods of study. In addition, classes are crowded and even in some elementary grades there are 30 children. "But how do you work with 30 children? - Claudia question - you become crazy! I would like the Gelmini tried for a week to see how it is. "
Claudia did not even believe the story that the cuts were caused by oversupply of teachers, in fact, is convinced "that even before the reform, the staff was inadequate, especially for children with disabilities, who are now virtually abandoned to themselves."
Even the flight into a town in the North rappresenterbbe a salvation for the couple, as you enter the rankings shift already pretty long does it take to fear Bossi also laws that require citizenship spot to teach in the city of the north. And then there are also recent graduates, who, as Claudia says, have the same "possibility that we have and this is not right because we are in this situation for 23 years and see overtaken by young people. With all due respect for these guys, but it is not right! I have not entered the final ranking because I have been overtaken by people who have never taught in their lives. "
And while the decree "save-casual" proves to be yet another hoax, in this hell of lists and bureaucracy, which has failed even the respect, the winner is indifference. "Executives do not care and continue to repeat that there is no money - says Cosimo - We do not feel represented by anyone, least of all the unions and there is great indifference even among teachers themselves. It is now a war among the poor, where everyone can and just looks like arrabatta an interest. In the first strike against the reform were many, but then as the issue has fallen into oblivion. " Claudia, however, concludes with a question as simple as it is disturbing: "What if, after 23 years of teaching, Gelmini decided that all temporary workers should not work anymore, what happened to us we would do, what future we?"
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