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Italy revives policy of failing badly behaved pupils to ‘bring back respect’

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82% Informative

The “grades for conduct” policy is similar to a measure first introduced by Benito Mussolini’s fascist government in 1924 .

The law follows a more than 110% rise in aggressive incidents towards teaching staff since the beginning of the year compared with 2023 .

Fines of between 500 and 10,000 have been introduced for acts of aggression or violence towards school staff.

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86

Informative language

87

Neutral language

52

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

56

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possibly offensive

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not hateful

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not detected

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short-lived

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