Rome (AFP) – Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s cabinet adopted a decree law Thursday banning burqas and niqabs in schools and capping the number of students with a poor command of Italian per class.
It introduces “A 30 percent cap on the number of students in a class who do not have an adequate command of Italian, more tools for learning our language, and a ban on the burqa and niqab in schools,” Meloni wrote on social media.
If a child seriously struggles to integrate at school, social services will be called and the parents will be obliged to attend free Italian lessons.
Failure to comply will be punished with a fine of up to 1,000 euros ($1,140).
Italy is a frontline country for migration and integration is a hot campaign issue ahead of next year’s general election.
Save the Children warned forcing children to change schools or enrol in a different institution from their peers simply because of their nationality or limited proficiency in Italian would “create ‘first-class’ and ‘second-class’ students”.
But Education Minister Giuseppe Valditara said “inadequate language proficiency… hinders educational progress”.
“Parental participation in their child’s educational path is fundamental for academic success”, he told journalists.
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This is so incredibly racist
Religion is not a race. Islam hates women.
Islam hates women.
Seen the life of a Catholic nun?
That’s their own choice. Do you know what women go through in Afganishtan? Syria? Iran?
Nuns get sent to convents, historically not by choice.
It’s just two sides of the same coin.
historically
Still?
Hijab is also a personal choice
You are right, Religion is in fact not a race. However, it is strongly associated with race especially when it comes to fear of outsiders. After 9/11 white muslim men had no issues when going though airports. However, if you happened to look Arab you likely where harassed by airport security.
As for Islam, beliefs vary wildly and include people from many different backgrounds. I don’t think anyone should be forced into a religion but people should be allowed to practice their faith.
Yes, they can practice their faith, just not in public or in schools. For that matter, no one in a position of power should represent a religion either. I agree with Quebec. That goes for islam and christianity. Most importantly, no religious symbols in government. EVER! keep it out of politics.
“Command of Italian” is more closely associated with race than religion.
Do you even know what a burka is? Also the “foreign student” ban is based on language competency, which does make sense I guess.
Do you know what a Burka is? Discriminating like this is a form of nationalism that has a very dark history
Yes it’s something that covers your entire head and face, only leaving a small slit for your eyes to barely see through it. Do you REALLY support that!? Would you like to be taught by someone, or teach someone, when you can’t even see their face?
(Maybe you are confusing it with a Hijab?)
If it is voluntary and for religious reasons I think it is perfectly valid
which does make sense I guess.
I don’t know what the situation is specifically in Italy… but at least in my Western industrialized nation, students generally have very poor reading and language comprehension skills—in addition to a short attention span—thanks to TikTok and similar platforms. I just can’t imagine that things are any different in Italy right now.
Accordingly, all students would have limited language skills, whether they come from immigrant backgrounds or not.
Funny thing is, the recent PISA tests showed an overall cognitive decrease, but it was markedly more severe for children with no immigrant background.
You can’t fall if you are already at the bottom…
what? its many things but it’s not targeting brown people.
racist seems to be like woke or commie, pretty much useless these days.
Ah, the generic metrics in use will ensure that any “true” Italian child who is struggling will receive support and others will receive “support” / imposed difficulties.
Well done Italy.
This should be the rule everywhere. Signs of oppression should have no room in places of education, culture or civilization in general.
Do you even realize Italy is one of the most Catholic countries in the world, with religious symbols everywhere? Will they also force the nuns who are traching to not wear religious clothing?
If it were for me, yes sure! of course! Sadly it’s not, so let me at least enjoy the good-ish news of pushing back one of the fiercest advocate of religious stupidity in this planet ridden by god-fearing haired apes.
And yes, I realize. We have holiday-residence in Sicily. It’s very blatantly obvious everywhere…
Signs of oppression should have no room in places of education, culture or civilization in general.
so we ban things.
But symbols of Roman torture are ok.
Of course not, you smart one. But it’s a start. And your assumptions say a lot.
But what of the Muslim men who are forced to have impure thoughts of the unsheathed Muslim women?
Won’t somebody think of the oppressors???
The leftys sticking up for islam makes no sense to me at all. Human rights? Women’s rights? wtf?
Human rights? Women’s rights? wtf?
Now do the Catholic church.
It’s a tolerance paradox.
Do you accept religious freedoms as an excuse to withdraw women’s rights, or anybodies autonomy?
Is it the states place to determine which is more important to the individual?
Is it appropriate to call out one specific headdress, which directly specifies one religion?
I think a fairer example would be to say no indoor headcoverings or hair accessories larger than 3 inches in any dimension (except for wigs and toupees). No religious exemptions. Absolutely nothing concealing the face without a medical exemption.
That covers burqas, beanies, and baseball caps. Gaiters and ghutrahs. Turbans and taqiyahs. Also covers yamulkes and everything else right on up to the papal tiara.
Thats a fair safety and security measure for a public building, I think. That covers nearly all religions headdresses (which ultimately have no place in a school…we don’t let God in, ergo he can’t judge, right?), as well as anything that could be used to obfuscate a person’s identity (which is one intent of the burqa restriction).
Oh yeah, “absolutely nothing covering the face”, you’re a real advocate for the leftists right to be IDd at protests and rallies so we can be arrested later at home by lazy cops and their facial recognition cameras.
God Internet atheists are such idiots.
The context was in school. But nice try.
I don’t think they’ve banned the nuns from wearing their religious garb
Oh oops, my bad. I didn’t think of those poor men.
🤔It’s actually crazy how racist / intolerant most Europeans are. In the USA we get the vibe that it’s the absolute worst here, but then you see them talk about Muslims or the Romani and its mask off.
Picking on brown kids is fun I guess
