Professor Cinzia Paolina De Lio has become the star of the educational planet. The Italian Court of Cassation has dismissed her in perpetuity, after almost five decades of merit. She has been teaching history and philosophy in schools in Venice for 24 years. Well, of those 24 years, she only taught continuously for four. The other 20 she was absent with one excuse or another.
He presented a hundred different justifications and 67 sick leave. She would go to class for a few days and immediately take long sick leave. In the trial held in the High Court, 16 authorizations of absence for personal reasons are mentioned, two absences due to work accidents, two maternity and breastfeeding leaves, seven absences due to a sick child, seven parental leaves, 24 leaves because he had to help members of the family with severe disabilities, five absences to participate in training and improvement courses...
Her own students denounced her, aware of her disinterest and the fact that, suddenly, without having taught them anything, they all received very high grades (9 and 10) to prevent them from notifying management. In 2017 they began to investigate her and decided that her acting was "incompatible with teaching." De Lio alleged that this was an attack on her "academic freedom". Since then everything has been a legal battle that has now been resolved, when the court has finally ruled her "permanent and total ineptitude" to teach.
The icing on the cake has been that, when the Italian newspapers have now tried to contact her to find out what she thinks, she has replied: “Scusate, ma ora sono al mare”. Exactly the same as Vinícius, the Real Madrid winger, a great martyr to racism who, when told that he has to testify by video call in the Valencia court that judges the events that occurred in Mestalla, says that he is in Miami on vacation and cannot get on.
