School shdn't certify demerits, must defend all says Zuppi

(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 27 - The head of the Italian bishops association said on the centenary of the birth of great educator Don Lorenzo Milani Saturday that school should not certify demerits and should always defend all of its pupils in their varying abilities.
    On the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Milani, "a priest and Italian citizen", the Cardinal President of the Italian Bishops Conference (CEI), Matteo Zuppi, asked everyone to look at his "lesson" that is "for everyone, believers and non-believers alike": "to change things it is not necessary to fall in love with one's own ideas, but to put oneself in the shoes of the children of then and now" and "not be torn from a destiny already marked out".
    Therefore, Zuppi said we need "a school that defends them more than any other teacher, a school that does not certify demerit but guarantees everyone their merit, the same opportunities because it does not cut the cake into equal parts, when those who have to eat are not equal".
    Italy's rightwing government has added the word 'merit' to the name of the education ministry. (ANSA).