The education poverty in Italy

There is no chance for development in a country that has school dropout rates around 20 percent. A kid who gets lost and ends up in the penal circuit costs the state four times more than it would cost if he were placed in a remedial school program.” So said Andrea Morniroli about education in Italy. As coordinator, along with Fabrizio Barca, of the Inequality and Diversity Forum,

Some dire data:

  • Educational poverty affects the country’s GDP at around 4 percent.
  • The Caritas report highlights that intergenerational poverty has very specific characteristics: the social elevator exists for those who come from middle- and upper-class families; other young people remain in their original social and economic condition.
  • Educational attainment is also inherited. The poor stop at the eighth grade and sometimes even only the elementary school leaving certificate; they mostly come from households with low educational qualifications, in some cases with no qualifications or even illiterate.
  • Among the children of people with college degrees, on the other hand, more than half make it to a high school diploma or college degree.
  • In addition to school dropouts, there are also those who do not attain the basic skills to find a job. They are 17 percent in the noon and 22 percent in Sicily. Ninety percent of these are the children of the children of the poor.

This is the picture of a country that has not made knowledge a priority.

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