Italy's New School Rules Cap Non-Fluent Students and Ban Face Coverings
Giorgia Meloni's government has passed new school rules that cap the number of students who don't speak fluent Italian and ban face coverings, Deutsche Welle reports. The two measures do different jobs. The cap limits how many students without fluent Italian a school enrolls, which turns language proficiency into a condition on a place in the classroom rather than something the classroom exists to build. The face-covering ban regulates what students may wear. Both read as administration on paper; neither will be read that way in a corridor.
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A cap on students who don't speak the language is a capacity argument dressed as an integration argument.
Or it is capacity, plainly stated: a class where the teacher and the students share no language is hard to run, and this rule is one answer to it.
Then the number that matters is what happens to the students the cap keeps out — that is the part of the policy with a human on the other end.