https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Italy in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed An Italian teacher faces investigation following a series of Facebook posts calling for refugees - including children - to be killed. https://www.thelocal.it/20161021/teacher-investigated-for-facebook-post-calling-for-migrants-to-be-killed Fri, 21 Oct 2016 13:18:02 +0200 teacher-investigated-for-facebook-post-calling-for-migrants-to-be-killed Italy’s top court has ruled that a professor who killed two rabbits as part of a biology lesson must be sacked. https://www.thelocal.it/20160607/teacher-must-be-sacked-for-killing-two-rabbits-in-class-italys-top-court Tue, 07 Jun 2016 13:13:27 +0200 teacher-must-be-sacked-for-killing-two-rabbits-in-class-italys-top-court Stefano Rho lost a fixed teaching contract at a state school in Bergamo, Lombardy. The reason? He was once caught peeing in a bush. https://www.thelocal.it/20160204/italy-teacher-fired-for-weeing-in-a-bush-11-years-ago Thu, 04 Feb 2016 12:40:37 +0100 italy-teacher-fired-for-weeing-in-a-bush-11-years-ago A father in north-east Italy has attacked a teacher in her sixties over claims toddlers were being sexually abused at school. https://www.thelocal.it/20150529/vigilante-dad-attacks-teacher-over-abuse-claims Fri, 29 May 2015 12:55:52 +0200 vigilante-dad-attacks-teacher-over-abuse-claims A former teacher at a private infant school in Ravenna has been sentenced to a year in prison after forcing a child to wash their mouth out with soap to "clean blasphemies". https://www.thelocal.it/20150324/teacher-forced-child-to-wash-mouth-with-soap Tue, 24 Mar 2015 15:33:13 +0100 teacher-forced-child-to-wash-mouth-with-soap A teacher at a school in Costigliole Saluzzo, a town in the northern Italian province of Cuneo, has been sentenced to 11 years and four months in prison for sexually abusing 19 pupils. https://www.thelocal.it/20150318/teacher-jailed-for-sexually-abusing-19-pupils Wed, 18 Mar 2015 11:45:10 +0100 teacher-jailed-for-sexually-abusing-19-pupils A primary school teacher in Naples, southern Italy, has been arrested after she was filmed abusing students by investigators. https://www.thelocal.it/20150122/naples-teacher-hit-kids-and-stole-their-snacks Thu, 22 Jan 2015 12:34:00 +0100 naples-teacher-hit-kids-and-stole-their-snacks An Italian teacher has been disciplined under fascist-era rules for removing a crucifix from the wall of his classroom in a move denounced on Monday as "stupefying" by campaigners for secular education. https://www.thelocal.it/20141215/fascist-law-used-against-teacher-in-crucifix-row Mon, 15 Dec 2014 17:30:00 +0100 fascist-law-used-against-teacher-in-crucifix-row The headmaster of a Turin school on Monday opened an investigation after a religion teacher allegedly told pupils homosexuality is an "illness" which can be "cured". https://www.thelocal.it/20141103/gays-can-be-cured-turin-teacher-tells-pupils Mon, 03 Nov 2014 18:32:00 +0100 gays-can-be-cured-turin-teacher-tells-pupils A maths teacher at a high school in Sardinia has been arrested for allegedly blackmailing his students into having sex with him in exchange for high grades. https://www.thelocal.it/20140917/teacher-arrested-in-sex-for-grades-scandal Wed, 17 Sep 2014 17:30:00 +0200 teacher-arrested-in-sex-for-grades-scandal A school teacher in north-west Italy is being investigated for sexually abusing pupils as young as ten, Italian media reported. https://www.thelocal.it/20140804/teacher-in-pre-teen-sex-abuse-probe Mon, 04 Aug 2014 14:33:00 +0200 teacher-in-pre-teen-sex-abuse-probe Italy’s Ministry of Education has launched an investigation after a teacher at a Catholic school in Trento was allegedly sacked because of her sexuality. https://www.thelocal.it/20140721/lesbian-teacher-sacked-in-defence-of-catholic-morals Mon, 21 Jul 2014 13:41:00 +0200 lesbian-teacher-sacked-in-defence-of-catholic-morals An Italian politician has called for an investigation into allegations that a teacher at a school in Rome locked a disabled boy in a classroom to "calm him down". https://www.thelocal.it/20140710/disabled-pupil-beaten-and-locked-in-classroom Thu, 10 Jul 2014 11:36:00 +0200 disabled-pupil-beaten-and-locked-in-classroom An art teacher from a school in Milan has been arrested over allegations of sexually abusing pupils under the age of 14. https://www.thelocal.it/20140606/teacher-in-milan-arrested-over-alleged-abuse Fri, 06 Jun 2014 13:19:00 +0200 teacher-in-milan-arrested-over-alleged-abuse A teacher from Enna, a town in Sicily, was detained by police over the weekend for allegedly luring a teenage girl over Facebook by promising her "riches in the fashion world". https://www.thelocal.it/20140526/teacher-promised-girl-riches-over-facebook Mon, 26 May 2014 14:39:00 +0200 teacher-promised-girl-riches-over-facebook A teaching assistant in central Italy has been caught on camera hitting and insulting a 12-year-old disabled boy in her care, Italian media reported on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.it/20140403/teacher-hit-and-ridiculed-disabled-boy-2 Thu, 03 Apr 2014 19:00:00 +0200 teacher-hit-and-ridiculed-disabled-boy-2 A teacher from the northern Italian city of Turin allegedly took two female students, one of them underage, to a swingers' club and then tried to intimidate them into not telling anyone. https://www.thelocal.it/20140319/teacher-took-students-to-a-swingers-club Wed, 19 Mar 2014 10:56:00 +0100 teacher-took-students-to-a-swingers-club A teacher at a nursery school in the Lazio province of Viterbo has been placed under house arrest after being caught “hitting, insulting and threatening” a class of three-year-olds. https://www.thelocal.it/20140311/nursery-teacher-hit-and-insulted-children Tue, 11 Mar 2014 13:52:00 +0100 nursery-teacher-hit-and-insulted-children A catechist teacher at a Catholic boys school in the outskirts of Milan has been arrested for allegedly sexually abusing boys in his care. https://www.thelocal.it/20140115/catholic-teacher-in-arrested-for-paedophilia Wed, 15 Jan 2014 10:44:00 +0100 catholic-teacher-in-arrested-for-paedophilia A school teacher in the northern Piedmont region has been arrested, accused of having sex with students under the promise of improving their grades. https://www.thelocal.it/20130821/sex-for-grades-teacher-arrested Wed, 21 Aug 2013 17:15:00 +0200 sex-for-grades-teacher-arrested