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School supervisor, 50, fired for jacuzzi rap video

A 50-year-old school supervisor who was dismissed after she took part in a rap video clip about older women who date younger men. The woman is taking her employer, a Catholic school near Cannes, to court. 

Published: 11 May 2012 11:04 CEST
School supervisor, 50, fired for jacuzzi rap video

In the video clip of rap artist Novia, 50-year-old Véronique Bonazzola flirts in bars, dances sensually with younger men and is dowsed in champagne while bathing in a jacuzzi. 

Bonazzola’s employer, a Catholic school in the town of Juan-les-Pins on the Riviera, did not take a liking to it’s employee’s out-of-school activities. She was fired because they deemed that the video “broke school rules and was incompatible with the nature of her work”. 

The rap song tells the story of a older woman who goes out with a younger man. Gradually, the woman becomes clingy and the rap artist explains the younger man struggles to get rid of her. 

The school supervisor says she acted in the clip to draw attention to the plight of older women with a good dose of humour, French daily Le Monde reports. According to her lawyer, Bonazzola also wanted to show that women over fifty can still date. 

Bonazzola has lodged a complaint with the local labour court which will hold hearings about her case in a couple of weeks

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Sweden’s Social Democrats call for ban on new free schools

Sweden's opposition Social Democrats have called for a total ban on the establishment of new profit-making free schools, in a sign the party may be toughening its policies on profit-making in the welfare sector.

Published: 18 April 2024 16:09 CEST
Sweden's Social Democrats call for ban on new free schools

“We want the state to slam on the emergency brakes and bring in a ban on establishing [new schools],” the party’s leader, Magdalena Andersson, said at a press conference.

“We think the Swedish people should be making the decisions on the Swedish school system, and not big school corporations whose main driver is making a profit.” 

Almost a fifth of pupils in Sweden attend one of the country’s 3,900 primary and secondary “free schools”, first introduced in the country in the early 1990s. 

Even though three quarters of the schools are run by private companies on a for-profit basis, they are 100 percent state funded, with schools given money for each pupil. 

This system has come in for criticism in recent years, with profit-making schools blamed for increasing segregation, contributing to declining educational standards and for grade inflation. 

In the run-up to the 2022 election, Andersson called for a ban on the companies being able to distribute profits to their owners in the form of dividends, calling for all profits to be reinvested in the school system.  

READ ALSO: Sweden’s pioneering for-profit ‘free schools’ under fire 

Andersson said that the new ban on establishing free schools could be achieved by extending a law banning the establishment of religious free schools, brought in while they were in power, to cover all free schools. 

“It’s possible to use that legislation as a base and so develop this new law quite rapidly,” Andersson said, adding that this law would be the first step along the way to a total ban on profit-making schools in Sweden. 

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