Like people in many other parts of the world, Italians are, once again, in the streets. In cities like Turin, Milan, Napoli, Cagliari, Roma, and Bologna, students are protesting yet another cut to education funding.
As a 22-year-old Italian woman, I have a fresh memory of what going to school in Italy was like. I would wake up early in the morning, find a way to make it to school (the transport system in Rome wasn't the most reliable), get regularly catcalled on the bus, be forced to show interest in colonialist propaganda (we discovered America! what a beautiful thing), use a bathroom that had poor hygienic conditions, try to stay calm at the sight of a frustrated old teacher whose salary fails to reflect how