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THE STUDENTS OF TASSO HIGH SCHOOL

THE STUDENTS OF TASSO HIGH SCHOOL

Since December, I have been carefully following the story of the students of the Liceo Tasso in Rome who occupied the school for a few days as a sign of protest. After days of assemblies, meetings and debates, despite the understandable opposition of the management, they decided to “occupy”, well awa…
CAN A TEACHER  MAKE A DIFFERENCE?

CAN A TEACHER  MAKE A DIFFERENCE?

During the Christmas holidays, between the gifts and the pandoro (not the Ferragni one, mind you!), we “distracted” ourselves with the new TV series Un Professore, starring Alessandro Gassmann who has recently enjoyed considerable success on Netflix. Back in class, we didn’t hesitate for a moment to…
Red tomato on a rainy day.

Red tomato on a rainy day.

When I was a kid, I had a short story book where the main character at the end of each story said, “Sometimes what you don’t expect happens”  It came back to me the other day.  I was walking around in the rain with a man and without thinking I told him what I was feeling at the time even though it…
PET SOUND

PET SOUND

We are already in 2024 and we come from a world dotted with continuous acts of violence against everything, against the feminine, against the human, against culture, against science, against the planet itself. It occurred to me to talk to you about something different, or at least apparently diffe…
DIARY OF POSSIBLE DREAM

DIARY OF POSSIBLE DREAM

The one with Gino Strada, or rather with his thought, is one of those meetings that you do by chance, while you are all caught up with what you are doing and what happens around you, trying to understand something about the moment you and the world you are living in.  Life is what happens to…
STORIES

STORIES

VITA MEA, VITA TUA

….to save yourself you need to have courage…. Giulia Alonzo Davide Mascari Melissa Lodato Students class 3I of the Liceo scientifico G B Grassi in Latina
ALL THE MEN?

ALL THE MEN?

In recent days we have all become aware of the terrible events of November 11th, the day of the death of Giulia Cecchettin, the 105th woman killed in Italy in 2023. Less has been said about the other 104, yet they all shared the same fate . Giulia’s case caused a particular sensation due to the myste…
WILL PROF. LEAVE US THE TIME?

WILL PROF. LEAVE US THE TIME?

<<Will Prof leave us the time?>> We ask the literature teacher as soon as he enters the classroom. <<For the article… I mean, we wanted to write about Giulia, but it’s complicated. Maybe we thought we’d start talking about it among ourselves, as it comes… we’ll sit around the de…