{"id":90846,"date":"2014-06-11T11:16:47","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T07:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=90846"},"modified":"2014-06-11T11:16:47","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T07:16:47","slug":"worlds-smallest-school-italian-girl-8-is-the-only-pupil-at-elementary-school-with-one-teacher-and-lots-of-imaginary-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=90846","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s smallest school: Italian girl, 8, is the ONLY pupil at elementary school with one teacher&#8230; and lots of imaginary friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/elementary-Alpette-Turin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-90844\" alt=\"elementary - Alpette, Turin\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/elementary-Alpette-Turin.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/elementary-Alpette-Turin.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/elementary-Alpette-Turin-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/elementary-Alpette-Turin-449x300.jpg 449w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a teacher in Italy who has very few problems controlling her class \u2013 because there\u2019s only one pupil in it.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, there\u2019s only one pupil in the entire school.<\/p>\n<p>The elementary in the tiny town of Alpette, Turin, is believed to be the smallest in the world and is attended by eight-year-old Sofia Viola.<\/p>\n<p>The third-grade student is taught all her subjects by 33-year-old Isabella Carvelli &#8211; the only teacher at the school.<br \/>\nAnd she admits it is sometimes so lonely she has to imagine there are other children in the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>Sofia hasn&#8217;t always been the only student at the school, which used to be the city hall.<\/p>\n<p>Last year there were four older pupils but they moved on when they finished fifth grade.<\/p>\n<p>Next year, she will be joined by some pupils from kindergarten &#8211; but for now she has the whole classroom to herself.<\/p>\n<p>Sofia&#8217;s favourite subjects are Italian and English and she loves school outings in to the surrounding mountains.<\/p>\n<p>She also gets to visit a larger school twice a week where she socialises with other children her age.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; There\u2019s a teacher in Italy who has very few problems controlling her class \u2013&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":90844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,224,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/90844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}