Overview
- A student-recorded video that circulated widely this week shows the vice principal of Escuela N° 540 in Rosario entering a classroom, ordering students to put away phones and then kicking a 15-year-old’s desk after the pupil moved his bench.
- The boy, identified as Matías, was suspended for 15 days and assigned take-home coursework while the episode receives media attention and local scrutiny.
- Matías’s mother, Silvia, publicly denounced the vice principal’s action as excessive, said she was not previously notified about alleged behavior problems, and demanded that the vice principal be removed from duties during the investigation.
- The recording captures the vice principal invoking a provincial rule on phone use to justify her intervention, and reports say the school will hold internal meetings and an administrative review that could lead to sanctions, though no final disciplinary measure has been announced.
- Parents and local media have used the episode to raise wider questions about classroom discipline, school protocols for handling misbehavior, and how authorities document and respond to recurring complaints about staff conduct.