It was to be the opportunity, it wasn't

Last night ended, or at least took a step forward, the long history of water in Cassina de' Pecchi's schools. It's been near two month when Mrs Isea posts her first disapproving statement on facebook (it was September, 24th). Starting from it we sow hundreds of comments, insults, attack to the city administration and the school management, newspaper articles, proposal for petition, request of public meeting, and so on.

The first post by Mrs Isea that starts the debate. 309 comments to this post.

At the end, after a couple of cancellations and move forward (it seems Laura Vecchi, Assessore for Pubblica Istruzione is not the bravest politician in the world), we had the public meeting. It was to be the opportunity to see the others in the face, to clearly say what we want for our children, to find a compromise solution or just to find someone to blame. It wasn't.

It wasn't for the following reason:

1. Everyone left of its own mind. Everybody said what was already said and no new information was communicated (for example what made the water smelly) and no solution was identified (if we exclude one or two propaganda ads from Sindaco Mandelli). We do not need ads we need project with a clear timeline. 
2. Each working day one thousand school boy have a lunch at school, at the public meeting we was in thirty if I do not count politicians and hits relatives, Commissione Mensa members and the supporters of Mandelli's administration.  It's hard to obtain something without numbers.
3. We said the same things we wrote on facebook for weeks and everybody just support hers own solutions. For politicians too many opinions means no opinion, too many issues means no issue, too many suggestions means no suggestion. We need organization, meetings to organize the match with administration, clear list of problems and a clear list of proposed solutions.
4. Last but not least, for sure the most incredible one, no one from opposition attended the public meeting. Andrea Maggio, Mandelli's first competitor, was not there. Maurizio Attanasio, the senior member of Consiglio Comunale, was not there. Fabrizio Di Costanzo, who wrote dozens of  charges aganist Mandelli and his staff, was not there. Di Costanzo seems a tiger on facebook but if he miss occasions like this he will be considered a little lamb.

One of the many post pubbished by Fabrizio Di Costanzo the most active consigliere comunale on this topic. 111 comments for him. 

So, Mandelli and his administration won this first match: they defuse the protest, limit the warries to a little group of boring parents and close the case with as a success. How to get a rematch? If someone still want to have mineral water into the school, she or he have just the last bullet: promote a a public petition that collects the signatures of parents for water in the bottle.