Turin, 6 Oct. (LaPresse) – A third school has been occupied in Turin. Following the Regina Margherita grammar school in San Salvario and the Giulio college, students occupied the Lagrange vocational college this morning. “Today, as students at Lagrange, we have decided to block access to our school. We’ve decided to follow France’s example because the situation in our schools is the same as theirs, if not even worse,” reads a statement issued by the ‘Seconda Generazione’ collective. “We’ve blocked the school because this building has been a building site for 10 years, there are electrical cables hanging from the ceilings and every day we come to lessons at the risk of them falling on us because we are a school with a majority of second-generation students and the government’s only concern is the cap on the number of foreign students in schools”, the students’ statement continues, concluding that “the ceilings they should be worried about are the ones falling on our heads, like the one in our sports halls”.
Schools: Lagrange vocational college occupied in Turin, ‘let’s do as they do in France’
Turin, 6 Oct. (LaPresse) – A third school has been occupied in Turin. Following the Regina Margherita grammar school in San Salvario and the Giulio college, students occupied the Lagrange vocational college this morning. “Today, as students at Lagrange, we have decided to block access to our school. We’ve decided to follow France’s example because the situation in our schools is the same as theirs, if not even worse,” reads a statement issued by the ‘Seconda Generazione’ collective. “We’ve blocked the school because this building has been a building site for 10 years, there are electrical cables hanging from the ceilings and every day we come to lessons at the risk of them falling on us because we are a school with a majority of second-generation students and the government’s only concern is the cap on the number of foreign students in schools”, the students’ statement continues, concluding that “the ceilings they should be worried about are the ones falling on our heads, like the one in our sports halls”.