Headmaster must pick up children: teachers of Kreisschule Mutschellen AG provide students with alcohol and cigarettes – class camp in Ticino canceled

At a class camp at a school in Aargau in Ticino, teachers provided alcohol and cigarettes for the students. The camp was then cancelled.

The class camp of the Mutschellen district school in Bellinzona was supposed to be an unforgettable week for two classes of students from the first to the third grade of secondary school. However, the trip ended unexpectedly and prematurely, reports “20 Minuten”.

The two class teachers provided the students with alcohol and cigarettes during a trip to Italy. According to “20 Minutes”, the students are between 12 and 15 years old.

A mother of one of the students involved said her son called her Wednesday night, concerned. Some of his classmates were drunk, and he asked her to inform the principal. “A night of anxiety followed,” the mother said, as she lost contact with her son and couldn’t reach the principal.

Intense discussion between teacher and principal

Contact was not restored until 1:30 a.m. The young people had to walk back to the hotel because there was no bus service. “The children were scared, they were cold, they were exhausted – and some were still drunk,” she continued.

On returning to the hotel, a heated discussion broke out between the director and the teachers in charge. On Thursday, the director took the students home early.

The school has already taken action: the two teachers have resigned and will leave the school at the end of this week, according to a letter to parents. The school management is also organizing an extraordinary parents’ evening to address the incident. Classes for the affected students were canceled on Friday to give them some rest after the “challenging period with little sleep.”

The school in the Mutschellen district has not issued an official statement about the incident at the request of “20 Minuten”.