Valditara hails teachers on international day

(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 5 - Education and Merit Minister Giuseppe Valditara on Saturday hailed the precious job teachers do on International Teachers Day.
    Saying that he hoped that school will be increasingly a pillar of civil and social growth, the minister told teachers: "Yours is a precious job".
    The day comes amid a wave of violence against teachers in Italy by students and parents, for which the government has upped penalties.
    It also comes after the latest figures showed that Italian teachers are the lowest paid in Europe.
    The FLC CGIL teachers union asked for more government resources to be earmarked to bring salaries to the level of the European average, while the UGL union called for "a modern school that recognizes the value and dignity of the profession". (ANSA).