“None of them can speak English”: Teacher burns copies of his students’ diplomas

He wanted to condemn the reform of national education. A contract teacher from a vocational high school in the 17th arrondissement decided to set fire to his students’ transcripts. Parisian. According to him, these are a catastrophic situation.

“None of them know how to speak English. That’s why the courses they have taken in the last seven years have failed,” he assures.

“The lack of commitment and intensity in student learning may be a valid argument if not for all students,” he continues. Partly because of this failure, I told myself that there was very little I could do. Helping them get a good grade on the exam will increase their chances of getting a bachelor’s degree, and they’ll take this sesame seed in hand to try their luck beyond high school and leave with nothing.

Wanting to “warn on the urgency of radically changing the way of doing things,” the editor took gasoline and a lighter to burn the copies kept in a metal basket.

Complaint filed

“Students were shocked by his attitude, faculty groups were also outraged, the rectorate responded in a press release quoted by our colleagues. No one showed solidarity with this teacher who left the place within minutes before being arrested by the police. Later, all arrangements have already been made to ensure that students are not punished in the context of their bachelor’s exams. .”

Contract at the end of the contract, the professor will not be renewed in his position. The police arrested the teacher on the complaint.