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Article: Italy's pupils enjoy thrill of class war
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 5, 1997
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Two weeks ago a hundred pupils barricaded themselves into a
high school in Rome to protest against education reforms. A few
days later police stormed the building. With angry pupils still
plotting their next move it sounds like the beginning of a
revolution, but, says in Italy's state school system it is simply
par for the course.
The children who gathered outside the battered facade of the
Liceo Mamiani yesterday were not in a mood to mess about. Still
seething about the brutal end to their little experiment in
educational self-rule, they were discussing their next move. Should
they continue to boycott television chat shows? Should they keep
trying to break back into the school, or push ...
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