Relatives storm Piraeus school over student exam ban

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Relatives of a student entered a vocational precocious schoolhouse (EPAL) successful Piraeus and demanded that the teenager beryllium allowed to sit for exams contempt being barred due to the fact that of excessive absences, according to teachers’ union officials and educators who filed complaints with police.

The incidents took spot implicit two days past week astatine the 9th EPAL of Piraeus. Teachers said two adults entered the schoolhouse connected May 20 seeking support for the student to take written exams, contempt a determination by the teaching staff that the student’s attendance grounds was insufficient.

According to the section teachers’ union, ELME Piraeus, the adults disrupted examinations, entered classrooms, intimidated teachers and demanded the names of educators who supported the decision. The union besides accused the schoolhouse main of undermining the teachers’ ruling by escorting the student into an introspection room.

The pursuing day, the student’s parent and aunt returned to the schoolhouse and again demanded the student beryllium allowed to sit exams, prompting different constabulary intervention.

Teachers aboriginal filed a corporate ailment with police. The union said acquisition authorities had confirmed that the student could not legally enactment successful the exams and condemned what it described arsenic intimidation of schoolhouse staff.