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In the summer of 2011 the Municipality of Riccione, inspired by the book “Le belle tasse”, asked me to come up with a project on taxes for schools.”

The tax game experiment is set up in such a way that the children who take part in it understand what it is. And this is made possible by the fact that they are taken to the Hall of the City Council, where they receive chocolate coins to pay the taxes with, and they are divided up according to the various roles of an organised community. The result is that the children who have taken part in the game know “what it is when it comes to taxes.” It should be added that the game’s title, “The nice taxes”, brings the children up against the very essence of taxation in a community.

In “taxes in class” it is different; everything takes place in the classroom, led by the teacher, and what is more, it caters to children of the fourth and fifth year, but also to students of junior high or high school age. It is in these contexts that one must understand “what it is when it comes to taxes.”

Hence the proposal to read and discuss the book in class starting from the children’s questions in Rome and Turin, as reported in “Le belle tasse“.

The premise is simply that the experience of the “taxes game” can help other children, and later, young people, understand what taxes are. Basically it takes literally the subtitle of the book: “What children teach us about the common good.”

 

 

The issue of taxes brings children and young people into contact with the fundamentals of life in society in an immediate and understandable way, drawing on real life experience, recalling latent knowledge, bringing out fleeting and instinctive reflections concerning the individual, justice, government, government spending, wealth and poverty, security, rights and duties, and then the legal system, rules, penalties – these are the possible subjects of courses in Civics.

The students, and also their teachers, rediscover in this way that they are indeed part of a community and how they have responsibilities towards it. And straight away everyone has their own opinion. Everyone is ready to say ‘here’s what I think!’ And then it is clear that others think differently.

And this was the case of the school year 2011-2012 with the ‘colour of taxes‘, which gives an account of precisely this classroom experience.

 
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  • Credits
    Graphic design

    Sergio Prozzillo
    Flavia Soprani
    081.5752941 sergioprozzillo@gmail.com sergioprozzillo.it

    Web programming

    Lettera 7 s.r.l.
    lettera7.it

    English version

    Adrian Bedford

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