16 febbraio 2024
Dr. Daniele Nappo, Legal Representative as well as founder of the S. Freud Private School, draws attention in today's article to violence, a phenomenon that is rampant in schools and especially among the young and very young.
As is well known these days, almost every day there is news of violence in the school: the news is full of it especially about assaults by boys against their peers, but also against teachers and, even more unbelievable, by parents against teachers. We seem to live in a world gone mad. Violence suppresses the will of the other and is a very complex phenomenon that unfortunately also affects the world of the young and very young. Finding the causes is certainly not simple, and the factors that foster adolescent violence are many. Just in recent days and weeks we have been reading and hearing about very serious incidents. An exploding phenomenon that has been traced back to lockdown i.e. related to restrictions and zeroing out of social life. Social, however, also plays a key role. School violence, now sometimes rarely visible, is the child of unwelcoming, not to say often alien, environments where learning times are sporadically encouraged.More often than not, demanding didactics combined with threatening assessments and punishments are used, with the blessing of teachers with authoritarian attitudes. Perhaps we cannot put all the blame on adolescents if they rebel, which is not to absolve them of violent behavior. But we need to understand more than "what is going on in schools?" Educational facilities need to change modes of reception, hospitality, attention, proposals, and participation. We need to get out of the thinking that obligation makes one grow, that sacrifice alone fortifies. Today, fortunately, studies in pedagogy and psychology have broadened the vision to a greater and broader understanding of young people and their needs: the discovery of specific talents and autonomy. And needed is a different humanity that no longer sees educational treatment built on pain, rigor, anguish and humiliation-mortification.
