I amMonday evening hopelessness and restlessness among parents of 5-year-old childrene Jean-de-la-Fontaine Public College High School located at 16e District of Paris. Their children came back with English booklets on the more mundane theme of daily life (“My Daily Routine”), but hidden in it were girls and boys wearing abayas, brushing their teeth, working and … praying on a rug.
Carol (pseudonym) was one of the parents who immediately communicated the information to her daughter’s primary teacher, institution administrators, and the educational assistant at City Hall 16.e Distt., Isabel Nizard.
“I called the rectory,” says the latter. The teacher is a foreigner, a contractor, who will complete the year, but the contract will not be renewed. “End of story. The Paris Rectorate, contacted, said the suspension was “as a precautionary measure of the teacher concerned” and that it wanted to put “an order dedicated to secularism and republican values for students”.
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We can expect more awareness from Jean-de-la-Fontaine College-High School. In November 2023, he was forced to suspend a philosophy professor who posted cartoons on Instagram showing three pigs representing Ukraine, Europe and the United States dominated by a fourth pig representing Israel. Another image showed the Star of David mixed with a swastika. A research mission was initiated for the Paris Academy. Its results are unknown.
point The origin of the “everyday” scenes used by the author was traced. They come from the British site Twinkle, which carefully measures the visual representation of different ethnic groups: Europeans, Indians, Orientals, Africans, etc. The paid site, from kindergarten to undergraduate, deals with anti-Semitism, racism, and discrimination, but none that refer to secularism or “secularism,” the French term commonly used in English.
Decline in teacher level
The contract teacher unwittingly used inappropriate teaching resources. Despite her inexperience, she clearly worked without a net. Carol says, “My daughter told me that her English classes were a disaster, and she wore a hijab outside of class. The head teacher I spoke to said that it is very difficult to find English teachers these days. »
This may be the main lesson of this incident. Even in the beautiful surroundings of Paris, the level of demand for recruiting teachers is falling dangerously due to lack of candidates.
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