A month after the start of the school year, Saïd has still not joined a classroom. This high school student from Côte d’Ivoire should have gone to Terminale at Aubrac high school in Courbevoie (Hauts-de-Seine), but his file is blocked. “He cries and tells me it’s my fault,” laments his mother, Digata Ouattara. Saïd is one of the hundreds of students who have not yet found an assignment in Ile-de-France, so much so that the Defender of Rights took up the subject on Tuesday.
“The question of the right to education is fundamental in terms of children’s rights, what message are we sending to these young people whose schooling is compulsory? These are students who will not have had lessons for a month. They are often students in difficulty, in difficult neighborhoods ”, protests Defender Claire Hédon, who reports reports concerning 58 young people in Grigny (Essonne), for example. In its press release, the administrative authority underlined the right of each and everyone “to be protected against all forms of discrimination”.
The STMG sector is particularly congested
Essonne would be the most affected department in the region, according to the Federation of Parents’ Councils (FCPE). Samir Alioua, president of FCPE 91, reports 400 students still unaffected on September 19, according to figures communicated during a session of the national education departmental council that day. The STMG sector (sciences and technologies of management and management) is particularly congested, with nearly half of the students without high school who have expressed wishes for this sector.
“We offer students from high schools 2 hours away, or those who have chosen the STMG, to do something completely different, or even to repeat a year. We find that unacceptable. We are for an orientation chosen and not suffered”, affirms to 20 minutes Samir Alioua, who wants “the texts apply, in this case it is the Education Code”.
No official figures
Other departments are experiencing difficulties, such as Hauts-de-Seine, where there were still 1,000 unaffected students at the start of the school year. The president of the FCPE 92, Katalin Lhomme, does not have exhaustive figures because it is mainly the vocational high schools that seem to be affected, but the association does not have many members in these establishments. At least five high school students still remain unassigned, according to her, in the department, but this figure is undoubtedly in fact much higher.
In Paris, the FCPE reports a dozen outstanding files to its knowledge. Contacted by 20 minutes, Claire Mazeron, director of the rectorate of Paris, affirms that there remain “a few dozen pupils who remain to be affected, but these are mainly people moving in or newly arrived in France”. She adds: “Except in special cases, we have no students who have been waiting for a month. »
“If there was even one young person out of school, that would be enough for us to launch an investigation. When we know that there are 90,000 young people who leave the school system without any qualifications each year, clearly we cannot leave these children without schooling”, thunders Claire Hédon. In Courbevoie, Digata Ouattara will try to call the Aubrac high school for the umpteenth time, to try to obtain the director. Until then, the efforts of the mother who raises her child alone have failed.