A teacher attacked by a parent was never dissuaded by the school authorities from making a complaint to police, the Education Ministry has said.
The ministry was reacting to reports in the wake of an incident last week when English language teacher Nadine Piscopo was attacked at school by a parent.
The parent, a mother of a teenage boy, was conditionally discharged for two years by the court and barred from speaking to Ms Piscopo.
However, the court allowed the mother to go to school and attend parents’ day.
In the aftermath, Ms Piscopo, 26, claimed the assistant head teacher had tried to persuade her not to report the matter to the police.
But a ministry spokeswoman said the assistant head had only asked Ms Piscopo and her father – who accompanied her to school after the incident – to wait for the headmistress to finish meeting the parent before filing a report.
“The assistant head categorically denies trying to dissuade Ms Piscopo from filing a police report.
“He simply told them that if they wanted to get the full picture of how the school was handling the case before proceeding to the police station, they had to wait a little while until the parent had left the premises,” the...
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