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Italian schools : individual schools Salina Scuola Media
Individual Italian Schools: Salina Scuola Media
Figure 1.--This is the pupils and the teachers of the Salina Scuola Media (6th-8th grades) in 1973. There was no uniform or smocks, pupils attended the school wearing confortable everyday clothing, including short pants. You can see the impact of American-styled clothing. Several of pupils are wearing flip flops. Note how much better the children are dressed compared to before World War II--the result of the Italian Economic Miracle. We also see children in a remote provincial school dressing as fasionably as children in Rome. Notice that the girls are mostly wearing pants.
Salina is one of the Aeolian Islands, a group of small volcanic islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea north of Sicily. The islands have an amazing history even featuring in Homer's Odyessey. They have been occupied by the Greeks Cathheginians, Romans, Visigoths, Vandals, Ostrogoths, Byzantines, Normans, Germans, French, Aragonians, Ottomans, Aragonians, Spanish, and finally the Italians. The islands are now a popular tourit detination. The photo shows he pupils and the teachers of 'scuola media' (intermediate school, i.e. 6th to 8th grades) in 1973. There was no uniform or smocks, pupils attended the school wearing confortable everyday clothing, including short pants. You can see the impact of American fashions, the children re dressed much like American children at the time. Several of pupils are wearing flip flops. Note how much better the children are dressed compared to before World War II--the result of the Italian Economic Miracle. We also see children in a remote provincial school dressing as fasionably as children in Rome. Notice that the girls are mostly wearing pants.
