Minister of Education
Prot No 30/dip./segr. Rome, 15 March 2007
the Regional General Managers
Their head offices for directors of provincial education offices
They Locations
the superintendent of schools for the Province of Bolzano
the superintendent of schools for the Province of Trento
All'Intendente School to School German
Bolzano
All'Intendente School for the local school superintendent Al Ladin
Bolzano
studies for the region Valle d'Aosta Aosta
for knowledge:
heads of autonomous institutions
School
Minister of Education
SUBJECT: guidelines and instructions on the use of "mobile phones
"and other electronic devices during the teaching,
imposition of disciplinary sanctions, duty to supervise and co-responsibility of parents and teachers
.
Recent news events that have affected the school, the transgression of the most trivial rules of social coexistence (misuse of mobile phones and other disruptive behavior at course of the lessons) up to bullying and violence, deal with situations which, though emphasized by the media, should not be underestimated. They represent the risk of the spread of a process of progressive loss of both a culture of compliance that the knowledge that the freedom of the individual must be a limit on the freedom of others.
Faced with what the school is a key resource in assuming the role of place of civil and cultural growth for the full exploitation of the person, reinforcing the existence of an educational community where children and adults, teachers and parents are involved in educational alliance that will help to identify not only content and skills to be acquired but also the objectives and values \u200b\u200bto be passed together to build identity, belonging, and responsibility.
to achieve these aims contributes to school autonomy, constitutionally recognized that, having overcome the current purely centralized education and citizen education allows the individual school concert, face, building agreements, create the space in where families, students, school staff can be heard, take responsibility and commitments, share a path of growth of human and civil person.
effective education of young people is the result coordinated action between family and school, in the spirit of shared principles and objectives, avoiding those conflicts that have always serious consequences on the effectiveness of the training process.
Therefore, all components in the school which express the autonomy of schools, particularly the head teacher, which is an essential element of synthesis, to be opened by a period of reflection on the issues covered by this Directive, to promote all the useful initiatives, including the revision of the Rules of discipline of the students, referred to in paragraph 2 of Article 14 of DPR 275/99.
In this perspective, we intend to provide, while respecting the autonomy education, freedom of education and guarantee the right to education, guidelines and explanatory guidance, calling for appropriate operational initiatives.
Using cell phones and other electronic devices during teaching
At the outset, it is quite clear that the prohibition of mobile phone use during school hours to respond to a general standard of fairness which, however, is a formal duties as codified in the Charter of the female students and students of the DPR June 24, 1998, No 249.
In such circumstances, the use of cell phones and other electronic devices is an element distraction for those who use it for his teammates as well as a serious lack of respect for the teacher setting, therefore, an offense punishable by disciplinary action oriented not only to prevent and deter such conduct but also, according to a logic of its educational of the school, to stimulate the students' awareness of the negative value of the same.
list of general duties set out in Article 3 of Presidential Decree No. 249/1998 suggests the existence of a specific duty for each student, not to use the phone, or other electronic devices during the conduct of educational activities, recognizing that the learner has the duty to:
- assiduously to fulfill the commitments of study during the hours of lessons (paragraph 1);
- to behave respectful of others (Section 2), as well as correct and consistent with the principles of art. 1 (paragraph 3);
- to comply with organizational rules and regulations issued by the school (paragraph 4).
breach of that duty involves, therefore, the imposition of disciplinary measures specifically identified by each school, as part of its autonomy, within the regulatory institution.
is therefore necessary that the regulations are required to institute appropriate sanctions according to the principle of proportionality, including that the temporary withdrawal of the phone during school hours, in case of misuse of it.
Where it thinks fit, the regulation of organization may provide the most appropriate organizational measures to prevent, during teaching, the occurrence of the phenomenon of incorrect use of mobile phones.
is understood that, even during the course of teaching activities, any need for communication between students and families, motivated by reasons of urgency or seriousness, they can always be met, permission of instructor. The school will continue, however, to ensure, as is always the case, the possibility of reciprocal communication between families and their children, for serious and urgent reasons, through the offices of the Bureau and Administrative Office.
The ban on using mobile phones during the course of teaching - learning, moreover, also works against the teachers (see Circular No. 362, August 25, 1998), in consideration of the obligations arising from existing and CCNL the need within the school community to ensure the best conditions for the smooth running and effective teaching, coupled with the need to provide education to the learners a role model example by adults.
For the above reasons, we point out the need for each school to acquire a self-regulation institution and transfer it to decline, adequate and effective, the principles laid down by the Statute of female students and students, according to the specific needs of the school community, paying particular attention to the identification of a repertoire of sanctions to ensure the highest effort, the actual compliance with the rules laid down in defense of the value of law and a proper civil society.
The Ministry will make available to schools, through publication on the website www.pubblica.istruzione.it, examples of regulation institution that will come at the initiative of the same schools.
disciplinary measures to students
With the entry into force of the Statute of female students and students is a transition from a punitive model, which focuses on a purely repressive, to a new system under which the student, in the event of breaches of discipline must be punished, but the same shall also be required to conduct active compensatory in nature - aimed at achieving a restorative educational purpose, by virtue of the provisions of the specific rules of the institution and to anticipate the
principle of autonomy of institutions school. In particular, the school is asked to predict the activation of educational recovery activities including through the holding of "remedial" or social relevance, however, oriented towards the pursuit of a general interest of the school community (such as cleaning of classrooms , minor maintenance, activities or volunteer service within the school community, ...).
The disciplinary sanction, even if incorporated in a new logic, also continues to play its indispensable role of effective response to a fault, as well as to prevent the carrying out of any breaches of discipline. How
n.16/2007 already clarified in the directive, the general principle of having a removal of more than 15 days, since art. 4, paragraph 7 of dprn249/1998 may be waived when both in the presence of facts of criminal law, or there is no danger to the safety of persons (paragraph 9 of the Decree).
In both situations the sentence is commensurate with the seriousness of the offense or the continuing danger. "
It seems appropriate that the regulations referred to discipline, when the situations identified above, provide for severe penalties commensurate with the particular gravity of the conduct by the students. In
From this perspective, the Ministry has initiated the process of revising the Articles 4 and 5 of the Statute of female students and students in order to allow one hand, the simplification and streamlining of procedures for the imposition and appeal of disciplinary sanctions and, on ' other things, the possible application of sanctions is particularly incisive, according to a progressive principle of proportionality and, in exceptional cases that present a very serious connotations.
In particular, the new regulations stipulate that in these latter cases, strictly identified by the school regulation, the penalty may result in exclusion from the final ballot or not admission to for the state of the course.
The duty to supervise and co-responsibility of parents and teachers
With reference to the component of parents, please note that, under the amendments to the Statute of female students and students, it is possible for each school to ask parents at the time of registration, or at least the beginning of each school year, to sign a "social compact of shared responsibility" in order to give effect to the full participation of families.
The active involvement of all members of the school community, in fact, is a necessary condition for the realization of autonomy school and educational success. With this tool
families as part of a more detailed definition and shared understanding of "rights and duties" of the parents towards the school's commitment to respond directly to the work of their children when, for example, the same cause damage to other persons or schools, or, more generally, violate the obligations enshrined in the rules of school and suffer as a result, the application of a sanction also of a pecuniary nature.
With regard to ethical and professional responsibilities of managers, teachers and the teaching staff, please note that the duty of supervision behavior of the students there in all the school space and requires timely reporting to the competent authorities of any offense, especially in the case of violence mentioned above, duty and failure to comply is a matter of subject assessment.
MINISTER
G. Fioroni
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