The principal of the Montale high school in Rome, who fell in the storm due to rumors of an alleged relationship with a 19-year-old student, decided to defend herself publicly.
"I come from an experience as an educator at the national boarding school where I was used to a closer, more peaceful interaction. Now I regret not having been more cautious. But in the messages there was no form of privilege towards this. boy. I absolutely did not think there was anything equivocal or strange ", Simonetta Quaresima said in an interview with Corriere:" Absolutely no lightness "in the relationship with the student.
"But how can you not have sympathy for those who are helping you like he did, in such a hard time? I don't know what went through the student's head, I just know that no relationship has ever existed", reiterated the principal. , adding however that if he went back he would surely ask him "to be less active in his collaboration, distancing himself a bit".
For the treatment he suffered in the media, his lawyer has already announced complaints: "I think it was absolutely discriminatory and totally unbalanced, an overexposure of my image that I can only explain by thinking that perhaps someone has provided information to the newspapers, perhaps he himself. There was also a male chauvinist attitude: the woman, a professional, was put on the limelight ".
The manager ended up in the crosshairs of the regional school office, holding an interview with an inspector "conducted with great professionalism and sensitivity, but exhausting: it lasted ten and a half hours". Now he will have to wait for the outcome of the supervisory board's inspection report to understand what his future will be. On remaining manager of Montale, after a possible green light from the USR at the moment he is not "able to respond".
"The situation is still too strong, I'm not thinking about it - he explains -. School is my whole life but to play the role of manager you have to do it in a peaceful environment. A transfer? It doesn't scare me, but I'm not thinking about it" .
(Unioneonline / D)
