“We were at school and a colleague from another class called me to help her because the speakers weren’t working.” Speaking is the mother – teacher of the Carducci elementary school in Pavia who, quite by chance, found that her fellow teachers bullied her son. In an interview with Republic, he reconstructed what happened on February 16 last year, the day he realized that the trust he placed in his child’s teachers was not at all deserved. “Let’s look at the computer together, I try to open other pages, including one of YouTube to activate the audio, and the message “restore page” comes out up. By doing so, check the “Whatsapp web” page. At that point I read my son’s surname in the chat between two of the teachers“.
She felt bad. “My head went three thousand times and I had a pain in the pit of my stomach. I switched with my colleague’s computer, went on with the afternoon lesson with my pupils, then went back to reading. I found insults of all kinds aimed at me, my husband and especially my son. At that moment I had the explanation for his recurring stomach aches and headaches, the fact that he told me he didn’t want to go to school. ‘ In the chat, the child – who is 8 – was defined “Idiot”, “dirty”, “shit”. There are also some photos, including one in which the little one is sitting with folded arms, after being thrown out of the music class. With the comment: «he There was very bad. I hope it will serve as a lesson ». And an answer: «Done well. It’s time to stop breaking in. “
The chats were included in the complaint that the mother presented in various locations, and also in the Prosecutor’s Office, and the three teachers have been suspended from their posts. But, in turn, the mother of the little boy was bullied reported, accused of having violated the correspondence of her colleague. “I found out with a voice message from the lawyer, who had received a phone call from a reporter. I sat down and thought it was a hallucinating aspect of this story. I confess, I started to cry and I thought: what courage these here had. Even if I expected it, from that day on I got anxious and I don’t sleep much ».
The other colleagues were sympathetic to her, but among the parents, some stopped greeting her, because they wanted one of the suspended teachers to return to class. The mother – teacher, however, decided to go on «because I just want them to understand what happened, so that it doesn’t happen again“. On the part of the colleagues “it was certainly a betrayal of the child and also of the other companions. By behaving like this they also authorized others to behave like bullies“. And again: «For a parent, leaving a child at school is an act of total trust. Teaching such young pupils is a vocation. You become a mother and you have enormous power, you can bury a child and undermine the purity of him. With their behavior they betrayed not me but one of their children, whom they should have cared for ».
Source: Vanity Fair
