The work of 63 high school students was reduced to ashes. A contract English teacher will be tried in October after burning Tuesday outside his establishment in Paris a package of 63 copies of the professional baccalaureate to protest against the methods of National Education, we learned on Wednesday from concordant sources.
The 29-year-old professor was taken into custody on Tuesday before being referred on Wednesday and was summoned for a hearing on October 27, where he will be tried for “destruction of property by dangerous means”, a indicated the Paris prosecutor’s office. According to this source, he was placed under judicial control with a ban on exercising the activity of teacher and a ban on coming to the surroundings of the high school where the facts occurred. He faces ten years in prison and a fine of 150,000 euros.
“None of them can speak English”
“A complaint has been filed,” said the rectorate of Paris. “In mid-April, a contractual English teacher, recently recruited and temporarily assigned to the Maria Deraismes vocational high school, defaulted during an examination organized by the establishment and counting for the vocational baccalaureate”, continued the rectorate, confirming information from the Parisian.
In this diary, the professor explained that “before the exam” he chose to “disclose the subject to [ses] students and to prepare it with them” because “none of them can speak English and the courses they have taken for the past seven years are a failure”, he added. This professional high school, located in the 17th arrondissement of the capital, is an establishment preparing for the vocational baccalaureate in the administrative and commercial tertiary sector.
A new student assessment
After the school vacation period, this teacher “was refused a resumption of service and ostensibly burned a package of copies in front of the entrance to the school. The scene was filmed by two journalists present, ”describes the rectorate. According to a source familiar with the matter, he acted to criticize the methods of National Education and the low level of students.
“The students were shocked by the attitude of this teacher, and the educational teams were just as scandalized. No one therefore showed solidarity with this teacher who ended up leaving the premises before being arrested by the police”, according to the rectorate. For the young people concerned, “a new subject will be developed by the teaching team of the school, which will allow a new evaluation of the pupils, with a concern for objectivity and benevolence”, indicates the rectorate.