Teacher suspended, 20 parents write to the minister: "He asked us for permission to pray, it was unanimously granted"
Moms and dads of many of the children involved tell their version of the facts on the case of Marisa Francescangeli in a letter
There are many details but also clarifications.
One way to make the version of the parents, twenty in all, who never challenged the work of the teacher Marisa Francescangeli despite the recitation of the prayers well understood.
On the table of the Minister of Education Giuseppe Valditara, but also on that of the undersecretary of the same ministry Paola Frassinetti and the director general of the School Office of the Region Francesco Feliziani arrived a long letter signed by the parents of three classes of the San Vero Milis school , those where Marisa Francescangeli teaches and has been in service again since last April 17 after twenty days of suspension for having recited some prayers and more.
Nine out of eleven parents from fourth B signed the letter, six out of eleven from third A and five out of eleven from third B. Families who have decided to give their own version of the facts, given that only three mothers would have been heard in the whole school .
«In 4 B - reads the letter - the teacher asked the parents for permission to say a prayer in class in anticipation of the sacraments and permission was granted unanimously by all the families . There was never any mention of volcanic eruptions».
«In the third A - it is written again - it does not appear that the children have ever prayed in class. No one has ever reported disturbances. In third grade B the teacher had the children make a bracelet with beads and with the image of Mary. He brought an oil and wished them a Merry Christmas. They recited a prayer together of their own free will.
Now all that remains is to wait for the answers on the matter . Both of the minister and of Feliziani. Also in the appeal presented by the teacher's lawyers, with which the annulment of the provision is requested, the judge of the Labor Court is asked to hear all the possible witnesses informed on the disputed facts.
