Announced less than 12 hours after the Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines) attack, the homage of all classes to Professor Samuel Paty will be well on the day of the start of the school year, November 2.
According to the elements, presented this Thursday by the Ministry of Education to the teachers' unions, the start of the school year will probably be postponed by a few hours for the students, time to give teachers time for a long-awaited meditation.
This period will also be an opportunity to reflect on the “educational moment” that must follow in the classes.
Finally, a “collective” tribute is planned in each schoolyard, college and high school, around noon, with the reading of a short text, and a minute of silence.
So much for architecture.
But the content of the tribute, which is to be the subject of another meeting next week, remains unclear, as the imperatives are contradictory in this ceremony involving a small million adults and 12 million young people.
How to avoid a repeat of 2015, when the minutes of silence for the victims of the attacks had turned, in places, to provocations thrown in the face of well-deprived teachers, to the tune of "not Charlie"?
And how, conversely, to support these same teachers, without forcing them to a premeditated and inappropriate discourse?
"Our colleague was killed because he was exercising his educational freedom, it would be good if we had ours", warns Jean-Rémi Girard, from the Snalc union.
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"I was asked for a clear, clear and powerful framing", recalled this Thursday Jean-Michel Blanquer, while he opened the Grenelle of Education to lead in February to a revaluation of salaries and a redefinition of the profession. teacher.
Since the start of the week, the Council of the Elders of Laïcité has been responsible for collecting ideas for this day, which will take place in all classes, but in a manner adapted according to the ages of the children.
The question of a minute's silence in kindergarten, deemed inappropriate by many educators, has not yet been decided.
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In the establishments located near Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, and specifically at the Collège du Bois-d'Aulne where Samuel Paty worked, the teachers' representatives asked for a delay before the start of the school year.
"It would be inconceivable that the team has only half a day to meet," breathes Antoine Tardy, the spokesperson for the main secondary school union (Snes-FSU) in the academy of Versailles.
The Minister of National Education for his part asked all elected representatives of the Republic, deputies and mayors in particular, "to be available" to teachers, as well as other professions particularly linked to freedom of expression. - "journalists, writers, lawyers ..." he cited this Wednesday as examples.
It was also suggested the presence of two adults in each class and the distribution of an educational support provided by the ministry: a video or a text.
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For their part, the communities have also gone there with their all-round proposals.
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And the teachers in all of this?
They fear that they will not find their young there.
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“We have feedback from colleagues who are very worried about this day,” says Stéphane Crochet, spokesperson for the SE-Unsa union.
In particular, the prospect of having to manage, in addition to the reactions of the students, the more or less adapted speeches of elected officials of all political stripes, and in particular of the RN, gives a cold sweat to all the unions.
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“Attention to recovery, this moment must be educational and not something else,” warns Sophie Venetitay, of Snes-FSU.
And to worry about the temptation "which would like all classes in France to watch the same video at the same time.
It wouldn't make sense, she thinks.
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