Giselle's first protest

Hello everybody!

As many of you know, I recently returned from a trip to Italy. My daughter Giselle is attending art school in Treviso for this year and I went with her to help her get settled.
She is doing great, meeting a lot of new people and taking in all the vibrant atmosphere of the art school, as well as the local heritage.

I just received a call from her. Today she took part in her first ever student protest!
The government is restructuring public education and in doing so is trying to cut costs... by cutting instructional time. The hours of instruction will go from about 40 a week to about 32, of course cutting lab hours and art courses. And all this without consulting who is directly affected by the restructuring, the students. For them this is an affront, so they striked and organized a protest in the streets.

Giselle never participate in anything like it. She was surprised to see so many people her age caring, taking action and exercising the right to voice their opinions. She said something like this could have never been organized in her old school here, the students just do not want to take any action. They probably do not care.

Those of you who are my age and went to school in the 80's, probably remember what it was like to fight for the right to have a student organization representing our rights inside the school system. How do you feel to see that many of our children do not understand the importance of that? Do you feel that there is a tendency toward apathy in young people? Why do you think that is? Could it be our generation's fault?

I would love to hear everybody's opinion, especially those of the younger subscribers...

Peace,

Chiara