Teacher talked bondage with 11-year-olds

NOVARA, Italy, March 30 (UPI) -- Parents are pushing an Italian primary school to fire a teacher after she discussed genital piercing with 11-year-olds during a sex education lecture.

Vincenzo Guarino, headmaster of the school in the northern Italian city of Novara, said the teacher displayed "serious naivety" when she failed to realize that "certain subjects and language can be used in a class of 15-year-olds but not 11-year-olds," ANSA, the Italian news service, reported Monday.

"It's true that she was only answering questions but there are ways of discussing these things," Guarino said to ANSA.

Parents said the teacher discussed subjects with the students including bondage, sadomasochism and genital piercings after a discussion about masturbation was taken off-subject.

The teacher, whose name wasn't given, said she was following guidelines for talking to students about sex, which she said require her to speak frankly "to clear things up."

However, some parents are calling for the teacher to be kept from students for the rest of the year, ANSA said.

"The damage is done and we don't want our kids to have anything else to do with her for the remainder of the year," the father of an 11-year-old girl told school administrators.