Nothing is new, and yet everything has changed.
None of the ills facing the school today dates back to today, or even yesterday.
But they have now invaded it, and sometimes enslaved it.
More than fifteen years ago, Jean-Pierre Obin wrote, with a small group of mainly left-wing inspectors general, an alarming report on what was not yet called communitarianism at school.
Regression of the female condition, surge of anti-Semitism, feeling of belonging to a “Muslim nation” opposed to the French nation, and, opposite, the first renouncements of school heads… Everything was already there.
Experts were already pointing to the heroisation of the jihadist leaders and the difficulty in enforcing, in certain establishments, a moment of meditation in tribute to the victims of the attacks in New York and Madrid - thus prefiguring the unacceptable disturbances of the
Charlie Hebdo
commemorations
.
But, already, they disturbed the good conscience.
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