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Right-wing student campaign against left-wing teachers: ministry investigates

A student movement launched a data collection on alleged politicised teachers, triggering criticism and calls for action from politicians and trade unions.

by Rome Editorial Staff

28 January 2026

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There is a storm after Student Action, a right-wing student movement, launched the 'Our School' campaign.

On the walls and inside some institutes, from Cuneo to Palermo, banners and posters have appeared inviting students to reveal 'the professors who make propaganda'.

The aim is the drafting of a national report, the flyers read, with a Qr code to be scanned to answer a questionnaire with a few questions.

Some of which concern facilities, trips and general school conditions, but one asks: "do you have one or more left-wing teachers who propagandise during lessons? Describe one of the most striking cases'.

Assessments

The Ministry of Education and Merit has started investigations, but 'as far as we know at the moment,' reported the under-secretary for Education, Paola Frassinetti, 'this is an autonomous initiative promoted by some students, who allegedly carried out a kind of anonymous survey.

It would not be a matter of 'filing' or 'proscription' lists, given the anonymity, but of an initiative similar to others that can be traced back to different sensitivities and political positions. The school must remain a place of free, pluralist and respectful confrontation'.

This is controversy

However, many are calling on Education Minister Giuseppe Valditara and even Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to speak out clearly.

'Proscription lists do not fit well with a liberal democracy like ours but only with regimes. It is an initiative of a university group close to Fdi: I ask Meloni to have this initiative withdrawn,' said the Pd secretary, Elly Schlein.

"It is a frontal attack on freedom of teaching, teaching autonomy and the pluralism of ideas, as well as a manifest attempt to intimidate teachers and build a climate of delusion among students," attacked the Anpi with its president, Gianfranco Pagliarulo.

"I am struck by the silence of Education Minister Valditara, who has the responsibility to protect the autonomy of schools and to ensure that no teacher is put under pressure," remarked PD senator Simona Malpezzi, while Flc CGIL secretary Gianna Fracassi took pen and paper to write to the minister in Viale Trastevere.

'Scheduling left-wing teachers is fascism, Meloni should distance herself', is also the thought of the president of the PD senators, Francesco Boccia.

Prof di sinistra schedati, "la mia denuncia contro i rigurgiti fascisti"

Malaise among teachers

The unease is also strong among teachers, so much so that there are videos and posts on social media condemning the initiative.

"I am a teacher of humanities and history in a high school - says a teacher in a video - I am a leftist, file me out. This is not an impartial investigation into the politicisation of teachers.

It is probably more frightening to be taught anti-fascism than to be unlearned fascism. The only way to oppose it is through resistance and putting one's face to it, another is to share it'.