An Italian violin teacher (Fabbio Paggioro, aged 36) was stabbed in the back with a kitchen knife by a 15 year-old student after the teacher said ”See how you manage to do well when you put the effort in?” Yikes!
Read the whole story here.
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3 replies on “more proof that teaching is hard”
According to the linked story, the boy was only 13.
Unbelievable!
Stilettissimo, eh? Well, that’s pretty nuts. I guess we better start telling our students that they are the next Beethoven, Heifetz, Bashmet or whoever . . . No criticism, no red pens and, certainly, no friggin’ metronomes.
Cameron – you’re right, my dyslexia strikes again!
D-Bob – at least he wasn’t packing heat!