Ex San Anton Teacher Says School Had To Accommodate ‘Parenting Foibles’ Of The Muscats
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A former San Anton teacher has said the school went to great lengths to accommodate the “parenting foibles” of Prime Minister Joseph Muscat and his wife.
Sandro Spiteri took to Facebook after Michelle Muscat accused the school of discriminatorily closing a blind eye to the bullying her children encountered as a result of the Egrant saga,
“I taught at San Anton School for eight fantastic years, one of the strongest formative experiences in my professional life,” Spiteri wrote. “I know the teachers and the administration well, their passion and care for each and every child in their care. I know the lengths to which they have gone to accommodate the parenting foibles of the Muscats, partly related to the father’s workplace circumstances, but mostly due to other factors that any teacher would recognize and roll their eyes over. For the sake of the children, let me not go further.
“It is ironic, to say the least, that the school that the Muscats entrusted with their dearest is the same that was also entrusted by the Caruana Galizias with theirs. Mrs Muscat’s outburst about her children’s school can, perhaps, be partly excused by the strain she has been under due to the Egrant saga, but in the main it says much more about her than about San Anton School.”
Michelle Muscat criticised the private school in an interview she gave to MaltaToday – the first since a magisterial inquiry found no basis to late journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia’s allegation that she secretly owned the Panama company Egrant.
“The school did nothing to protect my children, it was business as usual for it,” she said. “Obviously, because they were our children. When things happened to other people’s children, it was never ‘business as usual’. With ours, it was. Which is fine: that helped us continue leading a normal life. But then, of course, at school there would be other children who would hear things, and over the weeks…especially when it came to the election… there were taunts about Panama. There were parties to which the entire class was invited, but not our children. And in the school social chat-group, there were other children who would post things about their father. There was all of this. And it wasn’t just my children; my niece, too, was taunted at school because of her aunt. The damage wasn’t done only to my children and myself; but to all my family.”
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