(ANSA) – ROME, FEB 24 – Deputy Premier and Transport Minister Matteo Salvini, the leader of the right-wing League party, has protested against the case of Buccinasco Mayor Rino Pruiti who gave elementary school kids a book written by the former leader of the centre-left Democratic Party (PD) and ex-Rome mayor Walter Veltroni.
“It is very grave for a mayor to go to a school to gift politically oriented books to 10-year-olds (without their parents’ consent) which talk about, among other things, themes that should not be discussed in schools”, Salvini wrote on social media, demanding who funded the gift and “for clarity to be shed” on the case.
Meanwhile MP Rossano Sasso, the League party’s whip in the Lower House’s science, culture and education commission, protested against the initiative promoted by the centre-left mayor of Buccinasco, slamming it as “indoctrination”.
Announcing that he will report the case to the education ministry, the lawmaker said Veltroni’s book, ‘La più bella del mondo’ (the most beautiful in the world) “talks about partisan children, children who reached Italy on migrant boats and children wearing heels”.
“All this is happening unbeknownst to the parents, who have obviously protested”, he said.
Meanwhile the regional school office of Lombardy has opened a probe into the case, the education ministry said, stressing the investigation was kickstarted “following reports by some of the pupils’ families”. (ANSA).
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“It is very grave for a mayor to go to a school to gift politically oriented books to 10-year-olds (without their parents’ consent) which talk about, among other things, themes that should not be discussed in schools”, Salvini wrote on social media, demanding who funded the gift and “for clarity to be shed” on the case.
Meanwhile MP Rossano Sasso, the League party’s whip in the Lower House’s science, culture and education commission, protested against the initiative promoted by the centre-left mayor of Buccinasco, slamming it as “indoctrination”.
Announcing that he will report the case to the education ministry, the lawmaker said Veltroni’s book, ‘La più bella del mondo’ (the most beautiful in the world) “talks about partisan children, children who reached Italy on migrant boats and children wearing heels”.
“All this is happening unbeknownst to the parents, who have obviously protested”, he said.
Meanwhile the regional school office of Lombardy has opened a probe into the case, the education ministry said, stressing the investigation was kickstarted “following reports by some of the pupils’ families”. (ANSA).
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