We recommend three days of mourning and that all schools get under way on Monday. The children seem to be eager to go back to school. I think the focus in the lives of these children has to be re-established.

Islamic children should go to state schools and learn Italian, ... I do not want ghettos. Rather, I want an Italian Islam.

We have to be absolutely vigilant that those children aren't fleeing those schools,

And eventually, if the children in the two schools start to see themselves as a whole unit – less (as) competing schools and more of a school community and family – it will help make for easier transitions when they come together in middle school.

There are a lot of children in our schools who would really benefit from getting the sense that adults in society value them and their potential and want to help them succeed.

We're weaving our way through a timeline so we don't interfere with the schools. We try to maintain good working relations with the town and the schools.