“It’s a very serious, disturbing fact.” With these words, Education and Merit Minister Giuseppe Valditara interpreted the frightening attack on a 51-year-old teacher at a high school in Abbiategrasso, Milan, on 29 May 2023. The minister immediately expressed his solidarity with the teacher and rushed to the Legnano hospital, where the teacher was taken, after one of his 16-year-old students attacked him with a 20-centimeter-long knife.
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“I wanted to express the solidarity and closeness of the whole government with the professor who was attacked,” the minister said in a video message posted on Facebook just outside the hospital. According to Valditara, the boy had already shown some problems in the past: From the profile that emerged, he had no criminal record or even psychiatric problems. However, the student had accumulated six grades over the course of the year (four from the teacher who stabbed him in the morning) and a meeting with his parents was due on Tuesday, May 30. “I would like to take the opportunity to think about the introduction of the psychologist at school – the minister continued: This is a particularly difficult moment, children’s discomfort has increased as a result of Covid”.
Before going to the hospital, the minister commented on the attack at the high school at the “Pact for Innovation” event in Milan, explaining that he received weekly reports of violence against teachers at school. “I can’t imagine how a teacher could be attacked in a classroom,” the minister continued. This bears witness to an important social issue, according to the minister, who in recent months passed a law introducing the figure of a “private teacher” for the next academic year, a dedicated professor who will deal with solving psychological problems such as anxiety, stress. depression and rivalry behind school desks. According to the minister, the measure will aim to restore peace and cooperation between students and teachers, and above all try to reduce the damage caused by the pandemic.
Source: Today IT
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