“We must isolate that chimpanzee, you must not talk to him” is the phrase attributed to a middle school teacher by the father of a teenager born in North Africa who filed a complaint filed at the end of October and now the subject of an investigation by the Spoleto prosecutor’s office . The news is reported by the Messenger. According to what the newspaper writes – which talks about a story to be clarified – the sentence would have been pronounced in the absence of the pupil and reported to him by his companions. According to the man, his son almost completely deserted the school year “because after such incidents he no longer wanted to go to school”. The parent wanted to make the complaint public, reporting the sentence on social media. In any case, according to the family, the episode would not be isolated. Another teacher would have come into conflict with the boy who claimed to be called by his birth name and not with an Italianized version. The teacher replied “I’ll call you as I like, if you don’t like it you can go back to your country”. “I filed the complaint because I believe that where there are bad apples it is important to intervene,” the pupil’s father told the Messenger.
“The teacher called my son a monkey in his absence, urging the class to isolate him,” says the boy’s father, who then decided to file a lawsuit about what would happen. The file to the public prosecutor of the Umbrian city is still open. «The episode – explains the father – took place last October, before distance learning began. It was not the first episode and so I decided to file a complaint with the carabinieri ». In the act three episodes are reported, of which two involve – according to the complaint – as many professors, teachers in the boy’s classes. The third episode instead concerns a quarrel between peers. “Facts that I have always reported to the headmaster of the school, after the October episode the headmaster told me that if I thought it appropriate I could file a complaint, that’s how I did,” the man continues. «I did nothing instead – he adds – when the teacher continued to call my son with an Italian name and not with his clearly of Arab origin. On that occasion my son had allowed himself to ask the teacher to be called by his real name, but the teacher – the father also tells the carabinieri – told him that she called him what he wanted and if it didn’t suit him he could come back to his country “. «My son – says the father – now no longer wants to go to school and is followed by a psychologist. Great damage has been done to him and I only ask the judiciary to run its course and ascertain what happened ».