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Class closures: in Nanterre, in the Nahel district, “we feel abandoned”

2024-01-28T16:09:37.744Z

Highlights: The Vieux-Pont district, in Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine), is mobilizing for its school. The Paul-Langevin school group, which faces the city and the RER lines, is in fact threatened by two class closures (three initially planned), a kindergarten and the class of newly arrived allophone students. “Our children are not sheep that we count without considering the context! This accounting logic – drop in numbers equals systematic class closure – does not hold true at Langevin,” complains a parent representative.


For the start of the school year, National Education is counting on a drop in enrollment of nearly 2,000 students in the department, and thus forecasts 128 or


Bruised after the death of Nahel and the urban violence which broke out there last summer, the Vieux-Pont district, in Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine), is mobilizing for its school.

The Paul-Langevin school group, which faces the city and the RER lines, is in fact threatened by two class closures (three initially planned), a kindergarten and the class of newly arrived allophone students, as part of the 2024-2025 forecast school map currently under construction.

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Already last year, the school was closed.

The parents had taken it upon themselves.

But this Friday, January 26, many of them showed their anger in front of banners hung on the gates.

“Our children are not sheep that we count without considering the context!

This accounting logic – drop in numbers equals systematic class closure – does not hold true at Langevin because we are an orphan school victim of administrative injustice,” complains Chamssane Chafi, representative of parents of FCPE students.

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