Read this speech 58 years ago and tell me if it is not the exact implementation of what is happening now
"Let's say, so theoretically, there is a ruling party, a dominant party, which, however, formally wants to respect the constitution, not want to violate the substance. Do not want to march on Rome and transform the classroom in a handpiece housing, but wants to establish, without opinion, a disguised dictatorship. Then what to do to take over the schools and to transform schools into state schools of the party? He realizes that the schools have been the defect of being impartial. There is a certain resistance, in those schools is always there, even under fascism has been there. Then, the dominant party follows another path (it's all a theoretical hypothesis, mind you). He begins to neglect the public schools, to discredit, to impoverish. Let it anemizzino and begins to favor private schools. Not all private schools. The schools of his party, that party. And then all these treatments are beginning to go to private schools. Cure of money and privileges. He even begins to advise the boys to go to these schools, because basically it says are better than those of the state. And perhaps we give prizes to those citizens who are willing to send their children to schools instead of public schools private. A "those" private schools. So the private school becomes a privileged school. The ruling party, unable to openly turn state schools into party schools, send the dogs to schools to give priority to the state's private schools. Warning, this is the recipe. We must keep an eye on the cooks in this slow cooking. The operation is done in three ways, as I have already said, ruining the schools of the state. Let go to hell. Depleting their budgets. Ignore their needs. Mitigate the supervision and control over private schools. Do not check its reliability. Let the teachers teach you that do not have the minimum qualifications to teach. Let the examinations are jokes. Dare to private schools public money.
This is the point. Giving public money to private schools "
(in the Democratic School, March 20, 1950.)
