"We will break the dress code, and we will go to the with skirt and shorts to protest against the teacher who offended our partner".
At
the Righi high school in Rome, the protest explodes
against the words of a teacher who, commenting on a too short shirt of a student, told her "Are you on Salaria?", Referring to a street where the phenomenon of prostitution is widespread.
The story is anticipated today by Repubblica.
"She is a dear friend of mine, we are both 16 years old. We forced her to talk to the principal. On average, these things slip on her but this time she was very angry," says one student.
"She was just doing a Tik tok (short and personalized videos used and put on a free social platform ed), during an hour of the hole - specifies the student - her belly was just a little uncovered. You are a teacher, in more woman, you know that certain things are bad - the boy reiterates -.
Tomorrow all of us students will dress to break the school dress code. Who in shorts who in skirt ", announced.
"Here the dress code is still defined as in the 19th century: as appropriate clothing".
"I was not present for sure it is not right for an educator to refer to certain situations. The words were out of place, I do not justify them but I do not think the teacher intentionally wanted to offend her. I told the girl that if the teacher has wrong he will apologize. But it is not a question of dress code. It was more a question linked to a video posted on the net, among other things the teacher in question deals with cyber bullying ".
You told ANSA,
Cinzia Giacomobono, the principal of the Liceo Righi in Rome
, about the controversy that arose after a teacher scolded a sixteen-year-old student for a "dance" on tik tok she was doing.
The principal met with both the student and the teacher.
"The student and showed me her displeasure, for the situation in which she found herself involved. Today I also had the opportunity to speak with the teacher who told me her version: she had to do a substitute teacher, because the titular teacher was In the meantime he reached the class and this girl was intent on making a video with her cell phone and had lifted her shirt to reveal her belly - said the principal, reporting what she was told -. So she was doing this provocative dance in front of the cell phone.
The teacher intervened trying to scold her but above all for the video "he reiterated." We do a lot to make the students understand that everything they put online could somehow backfire ", said the teacher at the Principal. Giacomobono in fact underlined that the act of the video "struck" the teacher, not the dress code itself. So much so that she uttered the sentence: 'Are you on Salaria?'. "I'm sure the teacher didn't want to be like that. offensive against the girl - continued the principal -.
She got an unfortunate sentence. "
the teacher would have said to the principal.
Giacomobono in fact underlined that the act of the video "hit" the teacher, not the dress code itself.
Enough to pronounce the sentence: 'Are you on Salaria?'.
"I am sure that the teacher did not want to be so offensive towards the girl - continued the principal -. She came up with an unhappy sentence".
the teacher would have said to the principal.
Giacomobono in fact underlined that the act of the video "hit" the teacher, not the dress code itself.
Enough to pronounce the sentence: 'Are you on Salaria?'.
"I am sure that the teacher did not want to be so offensive towards the girl - continued the principal -. She came up with an unhappy sentence".
"It often happens that girls are filmed for their clothing: shorts and short skirts. To say, you can't wear tank tops with bare shoulders and are judged by teachers, it happens often, it happened to me too. it happened to Righi, I find that it is of an unprecedented gravity for the words used ".
To tell ANSA it is
Syria, exponent of the student movement La Lupa
, about the controversy that arose after a teacher from her high school scolded a sixteen-year-old student for a "ballet" she was doing in front of her cell phone, with her stomach "uncovered".
"It is absurd that a teacher could judge and comment on a girl's clothing, plus with scandalous words. Objectify her body in this way, legitimizing comments that are often made about us girls' bodies ... We have to give a strong answer and collective - added Syria -. The school has a role of comparison but also of care and relationship, we learn to take care of each other. And by a teacher it is not acceptable that a language representative of a mentality is used patriarchal and Maoist enclosure ".