The proposal came from the students themselves: "Prof, shall we watch a film?".
The teacher gave his ok and left the kids free to see what they wanted.
They chose a splatter film, forbidden to minors under 18, 'Terrifier', a particularly tough and violent 2016 film starring a serial killer clown.
Result: faced with scenes of slaughter, blood and bloody serial murders, many of the pupils felt sick, complaining of nausea, and the screening was interrupted.
It happened in a third of a middle school in Cremona and now, inevitably, the anger of the parents has risen.
With some who have written to the head teacher asking for explanations.
And asking how it was possible to allow the viewing of a film of that type, intuitively capable of offending the sensibilities of pupils who, at least largely, even just because of their age, are easily impressionable and unprepared to handle that type of emotion.
The manager preferred not to comment, limiting himself to explaining that the school administration "acted in the prescribed manner".
Giovanni Schintu, manager of Filo, one of the cinema-theaters in the Lombard capital, also intervened on the case.
"It really leaves you speechless - he commented - the superficiality with which the teacher consented to the viewing of the film without even inquiring about the type, then leaving the students themselves the final choice of what to see. And this suggests that cinema is unfortunately too much it is often considered by many to be a trivial moment of entertainment. It is disconcerting, in particular, that in defiance of any legislation a film has been shown that absolutely does not respond to the concept of viewing for school use".
