Italian
It has been talked about for a few days and the debate is open, the family of the forest in Abruzzo represents a hymn to freedom and nature as Rousseau would have liked or a departure from society?
It has become a political case that divides and polarizes public opinion, with a dense alignment for or against the decision of the judges of the Juvenile Court of L’Aquila who ordered the removal of three children from the parents with whom they lived. We are talking about a small house in a forest near Chieti, in Abruzzo. A dinner based on mushrooms turns out to be the catalyst that sends the entire family to the emergency room, opening the case, with local social services ready to take care of it. The intervention starts as a pure support measure that obviously becomes an action of forced protection, amid constant obstructionism from the parents, who believe the family arrangement is right and appropriate, with the children not attending school but following the practice of unschooling, a sort of completely autonomous educational approach that distances itself from all formal learning in favor of spontaneous learning, opening an educational breach that is not easy to interpret. To all this are added the conditions of relationship and hygiene. But in the Palmoli forest, perhaps the Anglo-Australian family has triggered its own personal fairy tale that includes kisses, tenderness, hugs, and warmth as an antithesis to smartphones and the internet, wifi, fiber, and forgotten passwords. Ultimately evoking in us the desire to draw a median line in all this, where the harsh Abruzzese underbrush becomes the stage for that common sense capable of appreciating an unusual alternative to contemporary life, outside conventional routes. Between educational freedom and nature. With the forest ultimately becoming horizontal.
Zero Biscuit by Mauro Lama
