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Rome, September 18, 2020 – “It’s not our fault if your eye falls off!” To the Socrates High School in Rome this morning the students They appeared in class with a mask, skirt and strong messages to say “stop gender violence.” The protest began after the alleged invitation of the vice principal, of do not appear in class with a skirt “why the teacher drops his eye“A prayer, reported by some students, uttered on the first day of school, which would begin with students sitting in chairs, but no banks during the lessons, to allow you to keep your distance in accordance with Covid provisions, pending the arrival of the ‘single-seaters’. From there – according to the students – the suggestion of the assistant principal, so as not to risk attracting, with scant clothing and without the desk in front of the seated girls, the gaze of the teachers and male colleagues. The alleged sentence also caused an uproar on social media. “Our bodies cannot be objectified, we cannot blame ourselves for the harassing glances of male teachers,” read among the messages circulating in high school, signed by the “Feminista Ribalta” student group, in which they were invited to go. to school with a skirt. And so, today, the Ministry of Education, through the Lazio Regional School Office, requested an in-depth analysis of the matter.
Dean: “Beware of freedom of speech”
“Socrates High School has always been proud attentive to respect for all individualities and of all opinions, free to express themselves, within the perimeter marked solely by the Constitution, the penal code and common sense and is equally attentive to the issue of gender, which is also the subject of one of the permanent working groups that the school, a national network of Green Schools, has been established and in which students, students and teachers work together. The school is and wants to be the jealous guardian of this identity and no personal assessment, whatever it may be, can ever be a discriminatory criterion against anyone ”. dean of the Socrate Lyceum, Carlo Firmani, about the protest of some students after the vice principal suggested not wearing scanty clothes to school. “The occasion can still be the object of a broad collective reflection, regarding the eminently educational and cultural role that the school has always embodied,” continues the director, who will report on the event to the Regional Office of the Lazio School.
Teachers: “I do not veto miniskirts”
“In the miniskirts in Socrates there has never been a veto“This is what I teachers from the Roman high school. “The democratic and progressive tradition of our high school is known – they say – and what the media has reported has the only result, probably unwanted, to divert attention from the real problems of the school. We express our full solidarity with the vice principal who together with her, the teachers of our institute have always shown sensitivity and awareness towards gender issues ”.
National Directors Association
“It is obvious that female and male students have to attend classes with a decent clothes, as a sign of respect for the institution that the school represents and for themselves. However, it is not acceptable that the motivation underlying this compliant behavior refers to a hypothetical and deplorable voyeurism of the (male) teachers. Teachers who, in addition, have an important educational role ”. This was stated by the president of the National Association of Rectors, Antonello Giannelli. “We must avoid -explains the union leader- that, due to an evident and marginal communicative incident, the category of Public opinion perceives teachers in a distorted and degraded way and that the Socrates institute is misrepresented as a garrison of an obscurantist culture. The episode shows, once again, how fundamental it is to use words correctly and consciously ”.
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