“Educating in Relationships” should have been hailed as a widely shared and wide-ranging bipartisan project, useful for recovering the right sense of respect for the differences existing in civil society. Yet, Giuseppe Valditara, an expression of the League Party, and who in the elaboration of the Project had managed to express, within the ministry entrusted to him, the full meaning of the political action of good government, has decided, according to what the major bodies report of the press, to retrace his steps due to the discontent that his innovative intervention had managed to arouse, both within his own party of reference and within the government majority with reference, in particular, to his majority parties Brothers of Italy and the League.
The Project, to say the least valuable in its substantial and functional consistency, called "Educating about relationships", came into being and developed with the aim of giving life to a shared prevention initiative among young people to counter the worrying phenomenon of feminicides, it seems to be "going forward without any guarantor", the Minister of Education recently announced. In other words, the appointment of the so-called "guarantors", among whom were not only Anna Paola Concia, LGBT activist and former deputy of the Democratic Party, but also Sister Anna Monia Alfieri, involved in the field of educational equality, and the state lawyer Paola Zerman, former candidate for the People of the Family, seems to give way to the mood of those who would perhaps like to reflect their political thoughts in the other context of the educational system.
If we were in a football scenario, we could probably say that the government majority, in the specific circumstance, scored an own goal: freedom of thought and constant comparison with others constitute the premise of every principle of choice, even in the event linguistic and ideological expression of any and all empathetic expression with the interlocutor of the moment for the protection of the principle of full equality of rights and respect for differences. Moreover, albeit in a different context, the President of the Republic himself, Sergio Mattarella, in adhering to the initiative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, had the opportunity to reiterate that the "recognition" and "protection of supreme values of human dignity, inscribed in the Constitution" are an indispensable requirement in all circumstances.
Having to then give up the contribution of a notoriously prepared, open, moderate personality such as Anna Paola Concia seems to constitute a weakness with respect to what would be the very spirit of the initiative being undertaken which, in fact, should not admit and/or legitimize exclusions of any kind which would end up, as in fact end up, nullifying the very spirit of the initiative. That is, to put it differently: if the ultimate aim of the Minister of Education's initiative was to educate today's young people to respect differences, his about-face, also justified by the need to avoid controversies of any kind within his government majority , would seem to contradict that same goal.
In the meantime, because it seems extremely necessary, as Elly Schlein also wanted to underline, to work together, the majority and the opposition, on a law that makes education in affectivity and respect for differences compulsory in all school cycles. Therefore, because, inevitably, considering recent events, the construction of a principle of prevention against any and all gender violence can only be pursued through training that starts from the school environment and is recognized as structural and mandatory during the formative years. Finally, because it is only with prevention that we can aspire to the creation, within each social fabric of reference, of a society that is more respectful of differences as a prerequisite for growth and mutual acceptance.
The categorical imperative, in essence, should be not only to proceed with the transformation of egalitarian thought into concrete practice capable of breaking the wall (to use this metaphor) which leads to any closure towards any diversity for the realization of an egalitarian project and truly common respect, but also that of overcoming any possible resistance, even ideological-political, to give vent (so to speak) to that constructive attitude which presupposes the affirmation of reason and sharing as criteria of judgment and self-determination in choices as well as in every field of life and everyday life. These would seem to be the foundations for the construction, and/or rebuilding, of a free, respectful and aware civil society of its own rights, and school education should play a role of primary importance precisely because of its unavoidable docimological function.
Giuseppina Di Salvatore
(Lawyer – Nuoro)
