“Too many grammatical errors, you can stay at home”: the relief of the teacher, the protest of the parents, the principal’s response

«I am tired of correcting countless checks written with their feet, wedges of serious spelling errors. If your idea is to continue like this, for me you can stay at home! ». Recurring grammatical errors in a primary school of the province of Treviso. And so a teacher reproaches the child, black (indeed red) on white, on the notebook. But the parents are not and accuse: desuetic and punitive methods.

In Treviso, at the end of May, the case breaks out. For months the family and teacher of a fifth grade child had had meetings on performance and conduct. According to the family, it was a situation that had continued for a long time and exploded in May, when the discomfort became too evident. It was at that point that the mother asked the carabinieri for advice, He contacted the top of the institute in Rome and met the local school management.

“After involving the higher levels of the school administration – explained the boy’s parents – we found a sudden change of attitude by the teacher: our son was reinstated in the class (where until then he was excluded during the teacher’s hours), is the punitive measure was removed that forced him to remain sitting during recreation without being able to socialize or interact with his companionsand it was readmitted to participation in the year -end of the fifth class. “

The boy, who will start the first average in September, is following now, on the advice of the pediatrician, «a support path in a center for the evolutionary ageaimed at offering the child a space for listening and dialogue therapy to relieve his malaise ».

But the manager reiterates how the teacher followed the child for five years, with patience and attention. And also on the fact that it was held in the classroom during the interval intervenes. «If a child is objectively agitated and restless and the teacher asks him to be calm close to her for a while, he is not violating anything or by sending a non -educational message. Nobody so far has ever had anything to reproach them.

The manager also added to Corriere del Veneto That the school year ended in serenity, the boy had taken part in the year -end recitation and made the exams. «When I asked for these public externations, I was replied that they wanted to create a debate on retrograde educational methods. A lot of bitterness remains ». The story arrived in Molise where the bells mentioned in the theme are produced. For this reason, the Marinelli foundries have decided to make a small symbolic gesture of closeness by inviting him and all his class in the foundry, they will be their guests, and they will be able to see the Bell Factory of Molisana with their own eyes.