High School and the State Language 'Manzoni'

Because I did a year of linguistics there

Alessandro Manzoni was one of the fathers of modern Italian. So it doesn't seem too strange that the classical high school dedicated to him, in his city, is the best in Italy. The high school in via Ghislanzoni was in fact positioned at the top of the ranking of gymnasiums of the peninsula by the website Eduscopio, a portal created by the Agnelli Foundation to compare the best schools in the area, thus helping middle school students to better orient themselves for the future. Thanks above all to the grades and credits obtained by the alumni, the plexus jumped to the top of the rankings. In fact, the university average of freshmen who grew up on the benches of via Ghislanzoni is 29.27. And the principal Giovanni Rossi explains that "only 2% of the students who pass here choose not to continue their studies". While the failures are always a few units, a couple of years ago only one rejected in the whole institute. The best ones, on the other hand, went directly to Oxford, Yale, the Polytechnic University of Zurich or John Hopkins. Even if they are not all roses and flowers for the plexus in the center of Lecco. Like the other classical high schools, the school comes to terms with the declining popularity of the more traditional Italian school curriculum: until recently there were four sections, with the 2015 high school being reduced to two. For this reason, since 2012 Manzoni has also "absorbed" the linguistic high school (also well placed in the rankings of the Agnelli Foundation): in all, the students of the two souls of the institute are 800. The great satisfaction for the Manzoni teachers comes by Eduscopio, which currently collects over four thousand Italian high schools belonging to the technical, scientific, classical and linguistic fields. The service classifies Italian schools on the basis of an ad hoc variable, the Fga index (Giovanni Agnelli Foundation). It is based on the combination of two types of information extracted from the Miur database. The first concerns the weighted average of the marks taken in university exams, the second on the percentage of credits obtained in a year.