Parents who attack teachers must compensate schools, Education Minister Giuseppe Valditara said Wednesday amid a spate of violence that on Wednesday saw another teacher assaulted.
Valditara said he and Justice Minister Carlo Nordio were preparing a "new specific bill" to get violent parents to pay fines and damages to institutes whose prestige they had damaged.
"In addition to harsher penalties for those who attack school staff, I am convinced that a further, specific compensation penalty should be introduced - which we are working on together with Minister Nordio - for the reputational damage that schools receive from the aggression of their school managers, teachers or staff in general," Valditara told question time in the House.
"It is clear that anyone who attacks a school employee attacks the State, deeply undermining the credibility and authority of the institution" said the minister.
As well as parent attacks on staff, Italy's schools are also seeing a wave of stabbings, both student-on-student and in onerecent case, student-on-teacher.
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