Sitting on a low wall at the entrance to the Val-de-Marne prefecture in Créteil, Badredine, 16, stares into space behind his dark glasses.
He speaks very little, letting his legs hang over the nettles.
Unlike his classmates at Romain-Rolland high school in Ivry-sur-Seine, he did not have the chance to make his return to first year a week ago.
Like him, 15 students are unassigned.
Facing the teenager, a dozen parents of students, associations and elected officials as well as a handful of young people came to claim their desire to return to the school benches.
The demonstrators chose this place rather than the academic inspection because the prefect must notably receive the rector and the academic director there in the afternoon.
They demand “the immediate assignment [of] pupils to their sector establishment and respect for [their] choice of orientation and the decisions of the class council.
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"I must change high school, more than an hour by bus"
Because the strange proposals quickly arrived. Hinda, Badredine's mother, reports that she was contacted by the headmaster of a high school in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés who offered training in STL (laboratory science and technology) contrary to what had been agreed. for his son, namely STMG (science and technology of management and management). “He told me he had a list of unaffected people and if it could help my son then he was welcome to go to his high school. What is sad is that it is a personal step, it is not the academy which offered us something ", sighs the mother of the family who admits to feeling" forgotten ".
Adam, 16, was in the same second grade as Badredine.
He too has asked to go into STMG premiere, a wish he was granted last June.
But now, since then, what he thought to be obvious is no longer so: "They told me that I had to change high school to go to Créteil, it's more than an hour by bus then. that I live 5 minutes from high school.
"And Ahcène, his father, to add:" My son is diabetic, he should be a priority on the lists.
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Consequence: the students feel “demotivated” and “discouraged” according to a professor who is a member of the Romain-Rolland collective.
"I am lost, I feel a little abandoned", admits Badredine.
And his former friend Adam explains: “I'm 16 years old, if I don't have my baccalaureate, I have nothing at all.
I want to have a future and a diploma.
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According to the collective, SOS R Entrée and Urgence Éducation 94, several other establishments in the department are affected by these dead ends and dozens of young people have not made their comeback.
Contacted, the national education services were not able to give us any elements on Wednesday.