"I would be ready to sanction it if I saw evidence ... But there is none," insists Sylvie Tronchet, voice asked despite a certain anger. Her daughter, a 1st year high school student, has just received a 0/20 in her first continuous test of the new bac, for having participated in the blockade of her Valin high school in La Rochelle (Charente-Maritime). A motive that mother and daughter strongly disagree with.
Thirteen other students at the school were pinned for the same reason, after an incredible morning of tension, on January 20. On the one hand, striking teachers, refusing to monitor the exam, and students determined to keep the doors closed behind chains and garbage cans, against the reform of the bac. On the other, the management team, determined that the event will take place anyway ... until helping young people to climb the gate to reach their room! The day before, an email had been sent to all the families, specifying that the tests were going to take place "as planned" and that everyone absent would receive a 0/20. Atmosphere ...
Of the 489 first-year candidates expected to pass the history-geography, 130 students remained outside, according to figures from the rectorate of Poitiers. The majority were called to catch up Thursday, January 30, except 14 students, sanctioned with a zero. "How is it that my daughter is in it and not the three girlfriends she was with?" wonders Sylvie Tronchet. The students were identified on the sole faith of a few adults who, trombinoscope in hand, were trying to find their way in the crowd. How can they be sure? "
"There is no longer any possibility of dialogue"
"There was a very clear visual identification of those who did not want to take the tests, we did it on a case-by-case basis," replies Marie Bregeon, the director of the president's office.
Tima, a 16-year-old student, disagrees. "I assume I had zero, I was aware of the risks in demonstrating, but I have the impression that the school typed a bit at random, for example: people who blocked were entitled to catch-up and not others, it is unfair, "pleads the girl, who" does not understand why the principal did not simply postpone the examination. "
The anger of adolescents has quickly spread far beyond high school, on social networks, the past week. Friday, the main union of school heads (Snpden) was outraged by "death threats" addressed on the web against their colleague from La Rochelle. “There is no longer any possibility of dialogue in the establishment… worries Karine Aulier, the president of the parents' association FCPE of Charente-Maritime. We wonder how the rest of the school year will go. "