On the International Day of Disability, schools in Trentino are once again in favour of inclusion. Faced with the entirely negative reading that a local newspaper offers regarding the work of the provincial administration and the schools, while recognising that in terms of attention to disability there is always much to be done and improved, the provincial education councillor Mirko Bisesti intervenes on the erroneous reading given to the ISTAT Report on school inclusion, where the data on the low completion of the sample questionnaire sent directly to the schools was misinterpreted as a value of the quality of inclusion, just as the data on the presence of communication assistance and facilitation tools, for which the Autonomous Province of Trento, together with Lombardy, is among the most virtuous territories - and not the tail end of the Italian school system - was read in the opposite way.
"The Autonomous Province of Trento is historically in Italy one of the school administrations that has invested the most in inclusion and in the universal right to education: Councillor Bisesti is keen to point this out, in thanking all the staff who work in and with the school, for the benefit of students with disabilities and special educational needs, "starting from a law and a regulation that - the councillor recalls - came four years before the national guidelines and that recent legislative interventions and Invalsi data confirm once again that it is at the forefront of the commitment to high levels of equity and accessibility, even for those who start from disadvantaged situations. In fact, the Invalsi data from Trentino highlight a system with levels of excellence on equity, which cultivates the growth of competence levels of pupils who are disadvantaged, "so that the fight against implicit dispersion is the challenge to be won". "Those who attempt to engage in such analyses should be aware that it is a very delicate subject and that it is their duty to engage with those who, with professionalism and seriousness, deal with this on a daily basis," Bisesti adds.
Publication date: 03/12/2022
