At first glance, nothing distinguishes "Saint-Jo", alias Saint-Joseph Viala, from other school groups in La Cabucelle, one of the famous northern districts of Marseille.
The establishment may be Catholic, there is no catechesis, but
“interreligious times”
.
The children, from the toddlers of 2 years to those of third, are more than 95% Muslim, from North African immigration.
The same cries resound in the courtyard of the big ones and that of the kindergarten, adjoining.
The same buildings, more or less decrepit, rub shoulders with the same prefabs.
There is a vegetable garden, like everywhere else, and body awakening sessions in the morning before going to class.
The mothers, veiled or not, and the few fathers who accompany the youngest are asked to stay at the door of the establishment, where no one enters without being duly authorized to do so.
Nothing distinguishes Saint-Jo, therefore, except the essential: the parents of some 500 students and the forty teachers did not arrive there by the…
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