Enrollment for the next school year opens in January. However, the choice is made now, analyzing the proposals of the high school (increasingly varied), going to open days, looking at the orientation advice given by middle school teachers. The 2022 edition of was also presented today Eduscope of the Agnelli Foundation which every year classifies the schools city by city, public and private.
Among the many questions we ask ourselves is the one on the course: a school that I like or one that gives me a job when I graduate? «Any kind of school», they explained to Vanity Fair the pedagogues Elisabetta Rossini and Elena Urso, «should train and make the person grow as well as teach a trade. Refine and provide relationship, communication and reality reading skills. Without this, the scholastic path is lame».
So how is the choice made? «Certainly one cannot disregard personal inclination and interest because once the high school has been chosen, the commitment must then be constant. If there is no interest, it has already been lost from the start». At the center there must be the student who must decide together with his family.
The attitudes
Personal preferences and aptitudes must count. Some say at least 50%. You don’t go to the classics without at least an inclination for Italian and literature, given that Latin and Greek will also come later.
Middle school board
The indication of the teachers, in the transition from middle to high school, must be taken into account, such as school performance and interest. On the other hand, the parent’s hope or dream for a certain type of school should not be poured onto the child.
The habit of studying
The desire to work hard on books counts in some paths more than in others and vice versa for manual skills. It makes no sense to enroll in a technical or professional institute that gives you a job immediately after graduation if you are not able to do a technical drawing already in middle school.
The rankings
It takes up to a certain point to look at the rankings, it’s better to ask those who have children who attend the school that is interesting. Not going to the top-ranked school doesn’t preclude anything. It’s not just the Institute, “a lot depends on the sections, professors and commitment of the boy”.
The open days
They are used to get to know the schools and in particular the extracurricular activities proposed, the training offer. However, we must not give in to the frenzy of having to go to everyone. If you have children with special needs such as Dsa, these are the best opportunities.
Friends and neighbors
A frequent mistake is choosing a school because friends choose it or because it is close to home. In the long run, they are no advantages if one’s abilities have not been taken into account. From a practical point of view, it is not wrong to choose a high school not too far from home, also because doing the journey alone is part of a growth process that is no less important than the training and education aspect. Deciding to make the sacrifice of crossing the city must have a counterpart, the school must really give something more that I can’t find in the neighborhood school. That of friends cannot be the only criterion, also because they could choose a type of study that is not suitable for the boy who follows them for high school.
Never decide for the children. We need to reduce parental interference to a minimum. For a parent it is often unbearable the idea of the wrong choice that the child, after the first year, can say that it’s not her way or that he is rejected. It’s not said that you make the right choice the first time around, but deciding for your child is dangerous because this boy will never have the chance to grow up and growing up means experiencing even a wrong choice on your own skin. It’s not the end of the world to lose a year at 14. The parent needs to give some perspective. He has experience from him and knows that there are a thousand ways to find one’s own way.
The job
The job perspective shouldn’t be preponderant because nobody knows market demands 10 or 15 years in advance. You can’t count on an already pre-established path at 13 years old.
Mistakes
Teachers and pedagogues list many. «The most frequent mistake», says an Italian teacher at the high school of human sciences, «is choosing a high school by force, thinking that it is the best ever, when perhaps it is not the right choice for that specific student. Consider “minor category” ITCs and vocational schools.’
According to the pedagogist Maria Michela Sebastiani, there are two most common mistakes. Choose exclusively on the basis of middle school profit and focus the choice on job opportunities. «The combination “high profit” therefore high school is still done; “average profit” therefore technical; “low profit” therefore professional. We know kids who, due to immaturity, had poor performance in lower secondary school, but who then went on to have a brilliant school career». The question of work is different. «Focusing the choice of study path on future job prospects may be one of the variables to consider, but certainly not the main one. The speed of both the economic-environmental and developmental changes typical of adolescence require other considerations, more centered on the formation of the skills to face and manage these changes».
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Source: Vanity Fair
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