Fatiha Boudjahlat is the author of several noted works. Latest work published:
Secularism, the future together
(Éditions Privat, 2021).
She is also the deputy principal of a school.
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From job risks to risky jobs... Enforcing the rules can put any National Education staff in danger, teachers, AED, and even those who are often forgotten or who are passed to As as a member of the Ministry, the head of the establishment.
How many complaints following the threat formulated in this way by students or their families, or on social networks “I’m going to make you a Paty”?
This is a danger that all National Education staff think about, even more so since the murder of Dominique Bernard... And which the principal of the Maurice-Ravel high school and the educational community thought about, after a reminder to the rule for a young girl to remove her veil within the school grounds, without effect, turned into a rumor of Islamophobic physical attack.
Deputy principal, I cannot imagine for a single second a principal physically mistreating a young girl or removing her veil.
Even, and this was the case, if it was provocative.
Because, when it comes to veiling, the provocation is more than recurrent.
The veil must be removed at the entrance gate of the establishment, when the complacency of the AED does not allow them to keep it beyond the gate, but some young girls put it back on, in the courtyard or the corridors or take advantage from the complacency of certain staff to put it back, or take it out only in class, and really if the teacher asks for it... veiled time saved, it's a succession of small victories.
We cannot denounce the “no wave” and not support a principal who is not locked in his office, who has not pretended not to see anything, who has enforced the rule.
Fatiha Boudjahlat
My colleague can count on the support of school leaders.
I salute his courage and give him my unreserved support.
Above all, he was fortunate to be supported by the educational and pedagogical community of his establishment, which would not have been the case in Seine Saint-Denis and in certain ghettoized territories shaped by the patronage of the South or France. rebellious.
Unfortunately for the staff and for what it says about our youth, the students, their students jumped at the opportunity to create an incident, demanding immediate sanction against the principal and refusing to return to class.
The cause is easy: defend a young woman, defend Islam.
These sand baccalaureate Jean Moulin pay for their heroism on the backs of National Education staff.
We cannot denounce the “no wave” and not support a principal who is not locked in his office, who has not pretended not to see anything, who has enforced the rule.
This young adult in BTS is free to adhere or not to the value of secularism, but the principle expressed as a rule is not and must never be negotiable.
I blame these students who believe they are at the forefront of social justice but pose a risk to the safety of those who are dedicated to their success.
The accusation of Islamophobia kills and has killed.
These students must be punished.
We also pay for the demagoguery of seeing citizens everywhere, at school, in middle school, in high school, without requiring civic spirit anywhere.
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The principal was able to count on the support of the new Minister of National Education, who thus follows in the footsteps of the refusal of accommodations and the restoration of the authority of his predecessor, Gabriel Attal.
We expect and ask that functional protection be immediately granted to our colleague so that the infamy of the rumors and the complaint filed by the young woman is not added to the disavowal of this presumption of guilt that we, management staff or teachers, we feel weighed on us: we must justify everything to the Departmental Directorates and Rectorates.
I therefore hope that the support of the minister will be followed, and over time, by that of the academic director and the rector.
Unreserved support.
Finally, let us recall that the murder of Samuel Paty was preceded by the infamy of a police interrogation following a father's complaint for the distribution of pornographic images.
The feminist “we believe you” should not make us forget that people lie, including students, including girls and young women.
Since Samuel Paty, we have known that these lies can kill.
His extreme solitude remains a shame for his colleagues and the ministry.
The principal of the Maurice-Ravel high school must not be alone.
The social peace that many would like to obtain by mutating-promoting this or that staff, is a truce of the defeated and cowards.