Mio padre dice pure che era problematico alla pubblica.

[morbrorper]

[details=“English Sentence”]My father says he was problematic in public school too.
[/details]

The placement of pure puzzles me. To what does it refer?

[Floria7]

But does this read “My father also says…” instead of “my father says that he too was problematic…”?

[mike-lima]

It is “My father also says”, rather than “he was problematic in public school too”.

The use of “pubblica” instead of “scuola pubblica” is not, I would say, a common expression. It looks like this sentence is extracted from a longer context, maybe referring to “scuola privata” and comparing someone’s behavior.

[Floria7]

Here I think we were wondering about the emphasis of “too” (pure) But I think we get it now. Grazie mike-lima.