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Alyallen
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 Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 6:38 am Post subject: Parents beat up principal over grades |
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Pure madness...I could imagine a Korean parent doing this. Actually I heard a story that reminded me of this a bit. What in the hell is wrong with parents today? No wonder the kids have no respect for teachers nowadays....Horrible role models....
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070305/od_nm/italy_principal_dc;_ylt=AtTYRXWCjtSkTawSmAnZotwDW7oF
Parents beat up principal over grades
Mon Mar 5, 8:58 AM ET
BARI, Italy (Reuters) - An irate Italian family beat up a principal because they were unhappy with the grades a young relative had received and a ban on cell phones at school.
Three male relatives, including the father and grandfather of the student, punched and pushed principal Ugo Castorina at the Lombardi middle school in Bari on Saturday, police said.
They were angered by grades on the latest report card and by a recent ban by Castorina on cell phones at the school he has run for the past 22 years.
Castorina was taken to hospital and treated for mild contusions. Police escorted him back to the school.
"Some people may not like it but standards must be set and rules must be respected if a school is to function," Castorina told reporters. |
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jazblanc77
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| Obviously you've never been to Bari. It's a very tough mafia town and it doesn't surprise me at all that something like that would happen there. |
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Adventurer
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| Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 8:10 pm Post subject: |
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| Bari? Yeah, that is at the southern tip of Italy not far from where the Carmona sprung up in the old days, and they have their own mafiosi. Of course, this is not to say this is an everyday occurence. However, there is corruption in Italy when it comes to academics in some cases. |
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jinju
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
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Somebody got beat up by an Italian?!  Oh wait, it was another Italian, that makes sense. |
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jazblanc77
Joined: 22 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 5:41 am Post subject: |
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| Adventurer wrote: |
| Bari? Yeah, that is at the southern tip of Italy not far from where the Carmona sprung up in the old days, and they have their own mafiosi. Of course, this is not to say this is an everyday occurence. However, there is corruption in Italy when it comes to academics in some cases. |
You make it sound like it's a stone throw from Sicilia when it's actually due East from Napoli. If you draw a line from Napoli to Bari, that would be considered the border of where the southern region begins and the area where the mafia has the most influence. |
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Adventurer
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| Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 6:43 pm Post subject: |
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| jazblanc77 wrote: |
| Adventurer wrote: |
| Bari? Yeah, that is at the southern tip of Italy not far from where the Carmona sprung up in the old days, and they have their own mafiosi. Of course, this is not to say this is an everyday occurence. However, there is corruption in Italy when it comes to academics in some cases. |
You make it sound like it's a stone throw from Sicilia when it's actually due East from Napoli. If you draw a line from Napoli to Bari, that would be considered the border of where the southern region begins and the area where the mafia has the most influence. |
Have you seen a map of Italia? Bari is definitely in the South. There are other mafia groups that are non-Sicilian in the Napoli, Bari etc... I didn't connect it to Sicilia. Sicilia has had its own mafias. Under the Spanish, in Napoli they had their own mafia grow, and it was nto called the mafia.
Some people believe the word mafia has an Arabic origin. We aren't sure. |
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jinju
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 6:47 pm Post subject: |
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| again, how do you get beat up by an Italian? can italians even fight? They were the laughing stock of World War 2. |
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Adventurer
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| Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 6:54 pm Post subject: |
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| again, how do you get beat up by an Italian? can italians even fight? They were the laughing stock of World War 2. |
You must be joking, right? Italy has been a country for a short time relatively speaking. The U.S. is an older country. Italians were not too crazy about fighting in World War II anymore than Americans are in fighting in Iraq. The U.S. public wants to leave Iraq. Does that mean Americans are wimps? |
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jinju
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| Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 6:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Adventurer wrote: |
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| again, how do you get beat up by an Italian? can italians even fight? They were the laughing stock of World War 2. |
You must be joking, right? Italy has been a country for a short time relatively speaking. The U.S. is an older country. Italians were not too crazy about fighting in World War II anymore than Americans are in fighting in Iraq. The U.S. public wants to leave Iraq. Does that mean Americans are wimps? |
The Italians were getting their asses kicked on pretty much every front they were on. The Germans laughed at them and they were allies. |
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Leslie Cheswyck
Joined: 31 May 2003
Location: University of Western Chile
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| Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 6:58 pm Post subject: |
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| jinju wrote: |
| again, how do you get beat up by an Italian? can italians even fight? They were the laughing stock of World War 2. |
It's the Italian / Jewish paradox.
Luigi can beat up Murray, Lenny, Reuben, Aaron, and Mordechai in a street fight.
But increase the numbers and reverse the odds and you have the entire Italian army surrendering at the end of the Six day War.  |
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jinju
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| Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 6:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Italian Army....those two words really dont fit together, do they? |
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Adventurer
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| Another thing about fighting Italians, you forget that one of the best boxers in American history was Rocco Marciano. As far as why the Italians didn't do well in World War II, they didn't quite have the same equipment as the Germans, the Prussians built Germany and the Prussians built a strong Germany. Getting beyond the idea of Germanic statelets. The Italians were still stuck with being from Sicilia, Piedmont, and Calabria. The Sicilians even had a vote and considered joining the U.S. The vote fell through. The Italians were not so unified. After all, you had the North versus the South rivalry. The Italians were not the ones who were attacked first. It was the Americans who were attacked first and by the Japanese and the civil war long ended. Italy was unified, but people were still very provincial more than many of the other Europeans and could care less about a war outside of their area. |
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jinju
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| Adventurer wrote: |
| Another thing about fighting Italians, you forget that one of the best boxers in American history was Rocco Marciano. As far as why the Italians didn't do well in World War II, they didn't quite have the same equipment as the Germans, the Prussians built Germany and the Prussians built a strong Germany. Getting beyond the idea of Germanic statelets. The Italians were still stuck with being from Sicilia, Piedmont, and Calabria. The Sicilians even had a vote and considered joining the U.S. The vote fell through. The Italians were not so unified. After all, you had the North versus the South rivalry. The Italians were not the ones who were attacked first. It was the Americans who were attacked first and by the Japanese and the civil war long ended. Italy was unified, but people were still very provincial more than many of the other Europeans and could care less about a war outside of their area. |
Oh puhlease, the Italiand were panzies. Not to be confused with panzers which they certainly were not. |
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