The children were arguing, even directing vulgar insults at each other, and to calm them down she improvised a sex education lesson.

It happens in the classroom of an elementary school in Cesena , the Dante Alighieri institute: the protagonist is an elementary school teacher who was hired at the time as a substitute teacher. A few days after entering the institute, he held the lesson complete with explanations and drawings on the blackboard (an egg and a sperm, according to him) . An accelerated "course" that had not been agreed with anyone, parents, principal or other teachers, and which had upset the children. The ministry - alerted after the parents had complained and the principal had triggered the measure - had decided on dismissal for just cause and cancellation from the rankings.

The teacher had lodged an appeal, rejected by the Court of Forlì and the Court of Appeal of Bologna. The Court of Cassation put an end to the matter by confirming the dismissal.

«It does not concern so much individual details of the case - we read in the sentence - such as the exact content of the drawings (considered "not conclusive"), but rather the fact that it entered into a delicate topic, that of "topics linked to sexuality and procreation " as a result of an inappropriate context (a quarrel between two children, with their use of strong words, even of a sexual or corporal nature), without "planning or coordination with the other teachers" , in a class where he had started to teach recently, with the ultimate effect of causing disturbance in the pupils, immediately manifested when they leave school with their parents".

(Unioneonline/D)