Valditara said he and Justice Minister Carlo Nordio were preparing a “new specific bill” to get violent parents to pay fines and damages to institutions whose prestige they had damaged.
“In addition to harsher penalties for those who attack school staff, I am convinced that a further, specific compensation penalty should be introduced,” Valditara told question time in the House.
“We are working on [what that penalty will be] together with Minister Nordio for the reputational damage that schools receive from the aggression towards their school managers, teachers or staff in general.
“It’s clear that anyone who attacks a school employee attacks the State, deeply undermining the credibility and authority of the institution,” concluded the minister.
As well as parent attacks on staff, Italy’s schools are also seeing a wave of stabbings, both student-on-student and in one recent case, student-on-teacher.
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