The teachers met this Tuesday morning in front of the Antoine-de-Saint-Exupéry college in Fresnes (Val-de-Marne) admit it without delay: it is a very quiet school, where the movements of fronds are very little practiced. Yet it is their right of withdrawal that fifteen teachers have played to show their disapproval and incomprehension. At the origin of their action, there is a decision of the academic inspection allowing the return to the college of a student who has been much talked about last month.
"It was a 4th grade student who assaulted a 6th grade student on April 12, near the school," rewinds a teacher. He put an Opinel knife to her throat. They didn't know each other. To defend himself, "he said he found the knife not far from the college," she says. And that if he had done that, it was for fun. »
"A definitive but suspended exclusion"
The teachers, who do not find cause for laughter but concern, thought they would not see this student, who presented himself well on Tuesday. They thought so all the more because the teenager had already been talked about a year earlier, when he was a student of another college in Fresnes. "He had been expelled because a knife had been found on him, he then joined our college," we are told.
After the holidays and a little more than a month after the fact, teachers learned last Friday that the student was allowed to return to Saint-Exupéry College on Tuesday. During a disciplinary council relocated to Créteil in the premises of the academic inspection, the latter had indeed opted for "a definitive exclusion but suspended, blows a professor. It's been fashionable for a few years, this kind of sanction. »
Towards "accompanying measures"
Before some of the students left and the other remained in the school, the teachers explained to them the reason for the day's movement and their distress. "The decision of the inspectorate is sovereign, but it is incomprehensible, given the seriousness of the act, and the liabilities of this student, which should be monitored," said a teacher. "We say that we must protect the victim and we force an 11-year-old child to be confronted with his aggressor," says one of his colleagues. "We don't have the means to deal with this kind of problem," says one colleague. We want to be heard. »
The Academic Inspectorate, which specifies that "the representatives of the parents of students have not joined the movement of mobilized teachers", indicates that the situation is known to its services. She adds that work will be done "with teachers and families", but also that "accompanying measures will be put in place".