The best in the class is Claire
A very interesting article about the OFW children in Rome and Milano was published in the June 20, 2012 issue of the weekly Italian magazine “Panorama”. From the results of a survey that it recently conducted with the close collaboration of the authorities from the Ministry of Education showed that the Filipino students usually have the highest grades.
Claire Rubio, 9 years old, 5th grade at the Trento and Trieste Institute in Rome, calculates from memory the most difficult problems and also excels in grammar and music. O Vincent Catalon, who outranks his local counterparts in mathematics at the Istituto tecnico per il turismo Cristoforo Colombo, could spare only an hour and half for his studies because he has to clean offices after school in order to help his family.
Thea Narciso is 14 years old and a 3rd year student at the Scuola Media Sperimentale Mazzini in Rome. She was born in Italy but was sent back to the Philippines to be taken care of by her grandmother. She returned to Italy 2 years ago and did not understand a word in Italian. Now she speaks it like a local and has 9 in mathematics and English, 8 in Italian, history, art and geography. Her best friend and classmate is Allison Boco who came to Italy when she was 4 years old. A daughter of a live-in OFW domestic couple whose father is an engineer and mother, pharmacist, she has 9 in mathematics, science, geometry and wants to be a scientist. “The difficult situation of my family motivates me to be the best,” she said. “I'm very competitive but above all to myself.”
Another school, another success story. At the Istituto d'Istruzione Superiore Fabio Besta of Milano, Angela Gabuat, 17 years old, is 4th year in accounting with an average of 9 in political economics. She had to help raise her younger brothers after the death of her father. She is a scholar of the Studio dell'associazione per le pari opportunita Fiorella Ghilardotti. “I just finished training in a local company and I would like to have experience in the U.S.A.
The language seems to be a major obstacle but soon to be overcome. Like the case of Gilmore Yan De Leon, 9 years old, 4th grade at the Casa dei sole in Milan who arrived during the second semester that the local teachers hardly thought he would ever succeed because he spoke Tagalog and English and was very timid and withdrawn. In 2 months, he wrote phrases in Italian and soon an explosion of language that he finished at the same level to that of his classmates.
Do not be surprise that if Jomel De Chavez, 13 years old, 3rd year, would obtain the licenza media with 9 or 10 in Italian which his teacher remarked proudly that such a grade is given only at the Manzoni Institute or if last year at the Itis Cartesio Institute in Milan registered a 100/100 result in the licenza superiore obtained by a 13-year-old Filipino and now trains in a well-known local consulting company.
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