Professor Cinzia Paolina De Lio has become the star of the educational world. The Italian Court of Cassation has dismissed her for life, after almost five years of merit. For 24 years he taught history and philosophy in schools in Venice, Chioggia and Trieste. Well, of those 24 years, he taught classes continuously for only four. The other 20 were absent with one excuse or another.
He presented a hundred different justifications and 67 medical leave. He would go to class for a few days and immediately take a long-term sick leave. In the trial held at the High Court, 16 authorizations of absence for personal reasons are mentioned, two absences due to accidents at work, two leaves due to maternity and breastfeeding, seven absences due to a sick child, seven parental leaves, 24 leaves because they had to help family members with severe disabilities, five absences to participate in training and improvement courses…
Her own students denounced her, aware of their lack of interest and the fact that, suddenly, without having taught them anything, they all received very high marks (9 and 10) to avoid notifying the management. In 2017 the Ministry of Education began to investigate and decided that his action was “incompatible with education”. De Lio alleged that this was an attack on his “freedom of the chair”. Since then everything has been a legal battle that has now been resolved, when the court has finally ruled on his “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 winger of Real Madrid, great martyr of racism who, when told that he must testify by video call to the court in Valencia that judges the events that happened in Mestalla, says that he is in Miami on vacation and does not go there can put
