A teacher at a lower secondary school in Parma was targeted, first with words and then with the throwing of a stone, by some of her seventh grade students.
First with verbal abuse during class.
Then her group followed her out of school, continuing to tease her.
At one point a student threw a stone at her head, but the teacher managed to dodge it by a few centimetres.
This is what the professor states in a complaint presented to the Parma Police Headquarters.
The facts date back to February 9th.
The complaint was presented on 10 February so that the Prosecutor's Office can identify any profiles of responsibility, for the 'guilt of the pupil', at the expense of the parents.
According to the Teachers' Guild of Parma and Piacenza, to which the woman turned, the children involved are in fact less than 14 years old and, according to what the victim reported, they would be well aware of not being incriminable, so much so that they boast a substantial right to commit any kind of action.
At the suggestion of the Guild, the teacher formalized the request to the competent offices of the school administration to be sponsored by the State Attorney's Office, not only for criminal matters but also for the civil liability of those responsible for the actions of their children.
"We hope that the regional school office does not do as in other cases seen in the area and moves to prosecute the parents - comments Salvatore Pizzo, coordinator of the Guild of Parma and Piacenza - We have found a misalignment in recent weeks with respect to the indications that the minister of Education Giuseppe Valditara gives to what happens in the area. The minister has repeatedly invited school administrations to support teachers also from a legal point of view".
In the past, underlines Pizzo, "the school administration recently formally denied legal assistance to a teacher who was the victim of threats from parents that occurred within a school in Piacenza, which the competent public prosecutor's office is investigating" .
With today's case in Parma there are 28 cases of violence and attacks against teachers and school staff in general.
The last serious case occurred on February 5th at the Enaip professional training center in Varese where a 17-year-old student, in the school hall, pulled out a switchblade taken from home and stabbed a student three times in the back. one of his teachers, Sara Campiglio, 57 years old.
The next day, in Pieve Emanuele, a town in the Milanese hinterland, a 15-year-old student was attacked with a knife by an acquaintance and almost risked his life, with a blow that grazed his femoral artery.
The stabber, an 18-year-old, was then arrested by the Carabinieri.
Even more recent was the attack on a teacher, class coordinator, which took place on 7 February in Reggio Calabria: summoned to school to talk about the scholastic conduct of his twelve-year-old son, a thirty-four-year-old attacked the teacher, grabbing him by the neck and slamming him against the wall .
Since last year there has been a sharp increase in attacks on school staff perpetrated by parents, equal to 111%, and a slight decrease in those by students.
Last year there were 36 cases of attacks on principals and teachers.
Just a few weeks ago in Taranto, at the Europa Alighieri comprehensive institute, the principal Marco Cesario ended up in the emergency room after being immobilized in the wrist, thrown to the ground and kicked and punched by the father of a little girl.
On 2 February it was the turn of the head teacher of the Bozzini-Fasani institute in Lucera, in the Foggia area: the mother of a pupil attacked him, not considering the 5-day suspension ordered by the class council against a boy who he had beaten his son and another who had released the video of the act.
In mid-January the principal of the Scoza scientific high school in Cosenza, Aldo Trecroci, was attacked by the father of a student who did not agree with his daughter's destination as part of the school-work alternation project and had hit the head teacher with a slap, causing him to fall to the ground.
In early November, a 56-year-old mathematics professor was hit with a headbutt in the face by the father of one of his students at the hotel institute in Arbus, in the south of Sardinia: the student, having received a reprimand, responded to the teacher and then he left the classroom where he called his father, who immediately intervened in his son's defense.
At the end of November, however, a support teacher at the Vallauri professional institute in Carpi (Modena) was hit in the face while trying to break up a fight between students that occurred during recess in the school courtyard.
However, one of the most serious incidents occurred at the end of the past school year in Abiategrasso where a teacher was stabbed in the arm by a sixteen-year-old student at the Alessandrini institute.
The attacker was then hospitalized in neuropsychiatry and failed at the end of the school year.
Another serious episode occurred last school year at ITS Viola Marchesini in Rovigo: a teacher, Maria Cristina Finatti, was hit in the head by some rubber pellets fired by two students, while a third filmed the act.
The young people did not repeat the year, unlike their Lombard colleague, and at the end of the ballot they even got a 9 in conduct, causing the intervention of Minister Valditara who was then followed by the lowering of the conduct marks.
Valditara: 'Stop justifying bullies and violent people'
"In Parma, a teacher was insulted in class and then stoned by her students. In Bari, two fifteen-year-olds were beaten to death by some of their peers as they left school. We must stop this culture of aggression and violence. Without the strong affirmation of principle of responsibility, respect for rules and authority, we risk sliding towards the disintegration of our civil society. We must quickly approve the bill on conduct: those who make mistakes must be sanctioned and made to face their responsibilities. It is enough to justify and tolerate bullies and violent people. Then we need a great pact between families and schools, for a cultural revolution in which parents are in solidarity with teachers, and never antagonistic, also knowing how to say no to their children. This is for the good of young people and of the community".
Thus on social media the Minister of Education Giuseppe Valditara.
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