Students at the Liceo Statale Ettore Majorana in Pozzuoli have occupied their school to call attention to building, hygiene, and teaching problems they say have gone unresolved.

The protest, reported on 20 October 2026 with a banner reading "Majorana occupato" outside the school in Monterusciello, was announced by the students as an occupation. According to local coverage, a police patrol from the Pozzuoli commissariat attended the site.

What the students are reporting

According to the students' statements reported by local press, the occupation is intended to highlight several practical problems in daily school life:

  • the school gym has been unusable for more than a year;
  • toilets are often out of order and general conditions in bathrooms and classrooms are described as inadequate, including overheated classrooms;
  • there has been no stable Computer Science teacher, creating discontinuity in lessons.

The students say the action is not directed personally against the school principal, but seeks discussion with all responsible parties and concrete answers.

The mobilization also connects school conditions to the broader right to education, including rising costs for transport, books, and study materials.

A school in Monterusciello

The Liceo Ettore Majorana is located in Monterusciello, in Pozzuoli, in the Phlegraean area west of Naples. It publishes school and administrative notices through its official website, the Liceo Statale Ettore Majorana site, which is the institutional channel for communications from the school.

No response from the principal, the building owner, or school offices was included in the sources reviewed for this article.

What readers should know before drawing conclusions

Two points matter for understanding this story.

First, the specific building and teaching problems have been reported mainly through statements by the students, as relayed by local newspapers. They were not accompanied in the available sources by independent technical documentation. That does not dismiss the complaints, but it means the exact condition of the gym, bathrooms, and teaching assignments still needs institutional confirmation.

Second, the available sources do not document how the occupation ended, whether the gym was reopened, or whether repairs or staffing measures were scheduled. Sources also differ on the reporting dates around the protest, so the full timeline needs further verification.

For the most current information, readers should check notices published on the school's official website, where communications from the institute appear.

What remains clear from the verified reporting is the students' central message, summed up in their slogan: "Vogliamo una scuola che sia fatta per noi" — they want a school made for them, with functioning spaces, reliable services, and continuity in teaching.