Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni once again referred to her plan to a “cap” on the number of foreign students attending schools in the country, in remarks she made on the public television network Rai.
“It’s clearly easier to create a ghetto when you take a child who doesn’t speak Italian and put them in a classroom where most of the other children also don’t speak our language,” said the Italian Prime Minister.
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“When you create classes with greater balance, with a more diverse mix of children, you avoid ghettoization,” she added.
Meloni emphasized that “when President Sergio Mattarella was Minister of Education, he signed circulars that essentially called for preventing too many foreign children from being concentrated in the same classroom.”
In remarks on Monday, the Italian President emphasized that “school is the key to the integration of foreign students and must not erect barriers.”
The head of the government in Rome also defended her announcement of a ban on the burqa in schools, arguing that “it is also a matter of security” and “similar measures are in place in half of Europe’s countries and in many Muslim countries.”
