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Italian schools : individual schools Teulada Boys School
individual schools Teulada Boys School
Figure 1.-- This is a 3rd grade class taken in Teulada, a small coatal town at tip of southern Sardinia. The school photograph here was taken during the the 1964-65 school year. Presumably there would have been a separate school for girls in the town. Third grade would have been boys about 8-years old. There probably was a separate girls school. At the time Italy was moving toward coeducation, but there were still many single gender schools, more on Sardinia thatv the Italian mainland. The way the boys are dressed shows that Sardinia was participating in the Italian Economic Miracle. Many of the boys wear the classic dark blue school smock with white collars. These boys wear light-blue bows. We see other Italian boys wearing other colored bows
This is a 3rd grade class taken in Teulada, a small coatal town at tip of southern Sardinia. It is believed to be the location of the ancient Roman port of Bithia. It was founded by the Phoenicians (8th century BC). It fell to Carthaginian control, but was lost to the Romans during the Punic Wars. It was was abandoned (early 7th century) when the population fled inland to escape Arab (Barbary) slave raiders. Although the Arabs do not like mentioning it, Arab slave raiding continued into the 19th century until France began colonizing the Barbary coast. Teulada is twined with Teulada in Spain which also sufferd from Arab slave raiding. The World War II Battle of Cape Spartivento was fought off Teulada (November 27, 1940). HMS Newcastle and three other British cruisers engaged fire withn an Italian naval squadron. This was shortly after the Battle of Torento in which British carrier aircraft disabled three Italian battleships--a precursor of Pearl Harbor ignored by the U.S. Navy. Teulada was primarily a fishing village. Fishing villages tended to be poor. This as the general pattern in Italy and in most other countries. Since World War II, the tourism industry has become increasingly important. And the village has become increasingly prosperous because of it. The school photograph here was taken during the the 1964-65 school year. Presumably there would have been a separate school for girls in the town. Third grade would have been boys about 8-years old. There probably was a separate girls school. At the time Italy was moving toward coeducation, but there were still many single gender schools, more on Sardinia thatv the Italian mainland. The way the boys are dressed shows that Sardinia was participating in the Italian Economic Miracle. Many of the boys wear the classic dark blue school smock with white collars. These boys wear light-blue bows. We see other Italian boys wearing other colored bows.
