Parent punches teacher for being 'too strict'

(ANSA) - Turin, November 12 - A parent punched a teacher for being too strict, La Stampa paper reported Thursday.
    Twenty angry parents had assembled at Gozzano elementary school in the northwestern Turin suburb of Lucento, alleging the 50-year-old substitute teacher was "too authoritarian".
    Children had been coming home in tears, they said.
    Police had to intervene to break the protest up.
    Principal Maria Pisciumeri met with a delegation from the parents, but said she has no intention of replacing the substitute.
    "That is a problem class, and the parents encourage rebellious behavior in their children," she said.