Schools dirty, health risk - The Republic

Italian schools are so dirty that it is better to close them. And ‘success in Mira in Venice. In some neighboring municipalities. In the center of Rome, in Trastevere, they just stopped all activities on the ground floor, invaded by mice. A study of 37 pediatricians has estimated that 1.7 million children affected by lice in 2013, two hundred thousand in the previous year. And the news is that the attack of pests has crossed the threshold of high school: First the ordeal of the families forced to weekly checks of the heads of the children and costly anti-lice began kindergarten yes, but stopped in the eighth grade. Lice also in high school, now: the mark of reclamation ever made, corners of deposit never cleaned. Schools of Italian gross over the threshold.

Is saving too much on our public schools, or perhaps our school you continue to have party companies. The dirt which calls into question the viability of cutting madman is the daughter of contracts by the CONSIP – the central purchasing of public administration – to entrust the cleaning of classrooms and laboratories, staircases and canteens. The large co-op Manutencoop, fifteen employees and revenues of one billion and 100 million euro, close to the Pd (funded the former mayor of Bologna Sergio Cofferati, President of the Emilia Romagna Vasco Errani, President of the Liguria Region, Claudio Burlando Senator Nicola Latorre: EUR 350 000 to the Democratic Party

since 2004), has reduced the hours of its workers by 70 percent. This is after the CONSIP, in fact, has decimated the new public budgets.

The cake cleaning of schools – one billion and 800 million euro divided into thirteen lots on the entire national territory – the Manutencoop was awarded three lots on nine allocated thus far. New contracts got them in Friuli Venezia Giulia and Veneto. In institutions assigned to the cleaners now take turns largely insufficient: or work beyond the working hours, unpaid, or schools are dirty. The classrooms of Mira and Gambarare are not cleaned since before Christmas, some students have accused respiratory problems and families have kept them at home. Teachers, therefore, have begun to play outdoor school activities and in the hallways.

In other cities, in Bari for example, there is the problem Dussmann, another great public contractor. Dussmann Service is owned by Dussmann Group, an international network of specialist services – “sanitation and food,” write them – for government agencies and companies. The entire group employs 60,000 people in twenty-one countries. The Dussmann Service has asked the Puglia region to help pay the salaries of 3,500 employees. Employees of the multinational, of course. The Region has said yes when he had knowledge that they can take money from the state: the law of stability offered, in fact, resources until 28 February. Then? We do not know. The Ministry of Education on Monday he met the leaders of the Dussmann, but the ministry for more money there are none. The Region of Puglia would like the Ministry of Education revoke the contract entrusted to multinational with a reduction of 60 percent in revenue and a decrease in working hours between 55% and 90%. Among others, the Dussmann did not pay the workers the two summer months: July and August. While Manutencoop Bologna, returning to the bomb, has not paid the thirteenth asking workers to halve the widening pay and seven days a week availability.

On the question of cleaning the Ministry of Education has been besieged December 12 until midnight, were the days of pitchforks. Layoffs and reduction of working remains a ghost, because cobas and the unions are at war. Unions and ensure that Five Star Movement, bringing into the school and entrusting it to the appaltone school personnel, it would save 100 million. Principals and teachers in the Northeast remember that if students jump in mass more than 200 hours of classes the school year will be canceled.

On January 31, the Ministry of Education national table to find new resources. It would be appropriate to review the entire procurement system for the cleaning of schools.