“
I found that the tone of the music teacher was not appropriate.
» “
Do you really find it normal that the French teacher is absent so often?
Perhaps we should talk to the principal about it...
» Messages in this vein, Nicolas (*) sees them regularly on the WhatsApp loop of parents of 5th B students. «
Last week, the subject of The concern was about the end of the year and the courses planned with the organization of the brevet in June.
We absolutely had a PowerPoint
,” says this Parisian dad, who follows the profusion of exchanges, without fueling them more than necessary.
“
On this group, the FCPE
(first national federation of parents, marked on the left, Editor's note) and
the local association of college parents are fighting each other.
It's who will respond to requests as quickly as possible
, he adds.
Their last message informed us that the case of the absent teacher had given rise to an exchange with the principal and that he was going to be summoned
.”
At a time when social networks are establishing themselves as a place of influence, parents' WhatsApp groups, created to streamline information between families and the school, have become an ordinary part of school life.
They do not escape the flaws of social networks.
“
These same parents who denounce the practices of their children wallow in the same excesses
,” says a mother.
To the point of transforming these spaces into popular tribunals for teachers, accused of remarks deemed inappropriate, questionable teaching practices or recurring absences.
Turmoil around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
At the beginning of December, when the Israeli-Palestinian conflict broke out a few weeks earlier, and on October 13, Professor Dominique Bernard was the victim of an attack in Arras, a controversy swelled on a WhatsApp group of parents from Clemenceau college , in Mantes-la-Jolie (78).
At issue: a media education course on the conflict.
The two teachers used an article from the magazine
Mon Quotidien
, in which Hamas is described as a “
terrorist organization
”.
Some parents, shocked by this wording, made it known on the loop, where the names of the history-geography teachers concerned were then circulated.
The noise reaches them.
Worried, the teachers of the entire college decided to exercise their right of withdrawal.
They have in mind Dominique Bernard and Samuel Paty - beheaded after rumors spread by a father on social networks - who crossed paths with a potential terrorist...
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