The Florindia nursery school in Viareggio (Lucca) has decided to cancel the celebrations of Father's Day because "not all children have a father". And the controversy broke out.
The manager Barbara Caterini explained her decision thus: «Five or six parents came to complain to me, they do not find it right that on that day their children, who do not have a father, were excluded from the activities and directed elsewhere. Complaints in my opinion acceptable, because a laboratory like this is discriminatory against those who do not have a father».
Therefore, other activities will be organized in which all children can participate: "We live in a different society than 50 years ago, there is no longer a model family, there are open and particular situations that a school must respect and protect".
Obviously there was no lack of controversy, from parents and from politics, with the Brothers of Italy in the lead.
“Cancelling Father's Day doesn't help inclusion. Ideologies should remain outside the walls of school buildings and family relationships should always be privileged", declared the FdI regional councilor Vittorio Fantozzi and the Viareggio municipal councilor Marco Dondolini.
«What the principal decided would have been dictated by the desire not to discriminate against children who do not have a father - the Fdi exponents underline in a note -, but also because today there is no longer a model family. Creating such a precedent could be the pretext for the future cancellation of other anniversaries, perhaps such as Mother's Day ».
(Unioneonline/L)