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September 16, 2019No more electric blue plaits for the 13-year-old from Naples, who was banned from entering the school last Friday by the principal. He will return to the benches of "Ilaria Alpi-Carlo Levi" in Scampia, a northern suburb of Naples, after having given up styling. It was the boy's own mother who cut his hair, but now he asks for an apology from the principal: "A useless chaos has been created for even a trivial affair. Moreover my son two years ago entered the classroom with the same braids, perhaps the principal he forgot it ".The dean of the Institute, Rosalba Rotondo, says: "He is a very intelligent boy, in December he will perform with other students at the San Carlo in Naples. Here at school we want him to continue to cultivate the passion for the piano, the music. His redemption must come from culture ".
The 13-year-old, the headmaster said, had a regular lesson today. Not in class with his companions, but in the masterclass in which he is inserted, a training cycle open to young people who have rough paths and family situations at risk. "Today the parents' meeting was held - the principal adds - the other mothers have asked me to make everyone respect the rules because they are valid for everyone".
Another mother attacks the principal
Critics to the head teacher come from another mother, via social network: "This time they are not blue braids, but simple jeans to ensure that the principal Rotondo arrogates to herself the right to leave my children in the teachers' room for the entire duration of educational activities, precluding him the right to study - he writes - my son is now in shock and does not want to go back to school. Is this a normal behavior by a manager? Are my children's trousers so outrageous? the role assigned to the manager, because we are living in fear of sending our children to school ".
The undersecretary asks for an intervention
To request the intervention of the regional school office on the matter is also the new undersecretary of education, the Neapolitan Giuseppe De Cristofaro: "The exclusion from the lessons of the student for the sole question of the haircut to me seems unjustified and discriminatory. While respecting school autonomy and regulations, it is necessary to restore a principle of personal freedom ".