Professor attacked by a 16-year-old student in Rossano, Gilda: teaching is a physical risk.

Teacher slapped, kicked and punched for giving a "bad grade".

RIMINI- He waited for him at the exit, in the school courtyard, to “make him pay” for the low grade he received. This is the motivation that drove a 16-year-old student from the Technical Commercial Institute of Corigliano-Rossano, in the province of Cosenza, to insult and attack his professor who was violently slapped, kicked and punched. And was then rescued by the 118 health workers, who were alerted after the episode. “This is yet another episode in a long chain that does not seem to have an end – comments the national coordinator of the Teachers’ Guild, Rino Di Meglio – It is only possible to go to class to do one’s duty, has even become a physical risk for teachers”. Di Meglio therefore urges us to open a social reflection “to understand how we got to this point”. Perhaps “the misunderstanding – he hypothesizes – lies in having introduced the demagogic concept of ‘ right to educational success, confusing the concept of democratic school which must instead be the guarantee of equality of starting points, not of arrival points”.
According to the data reported by the Minister of Education and Merit, < strong>Giuseppe Valditara, in the Chamber during question time last February, since the beginning of the school year there have been 28 attacks on teachers, almost one a week , 2022-2023, there were 36 in total, given the trend, it is not excluded that in June, at the start of the schools’ summer break, the balance worsened. The results of a recent survey by Skuola.net carried out on a sample of 2 thousand students are also worrying: 18% of students, i.e. 1 in 5, declare having witnessed at least one episode of aggression, both verbal and physical, towards a teacher.