This Monday, the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo was questioned about the ban on the abaya during a visit to a school in the 20th arrondissement, the city councilor estimated that “what should occupy the back to school is : What do we do so that our children succeed in school? This is the republican pact. »
Anne Hidalgo, said she was “favorable” to banning the wearing of the abaya in schools, but considered that it is success “which should occupy the start of the school year”. The elected socialist, however, recalled being “favorable” to the measure presented by the Minister of National Education, Gabriel Attal.
“Difficult to say” if the number of teachers was lacking in the classes
For the start of the school year, the mayor went to the Vitruvius school, which is celebrating 60 years of its participatory pedagogy. Monday morning, it was “difficult to say” if the number of teachers in Parisian classes was lacking, said the mayor. “Rather than closing posts massively in Paris and elsewhere, we should also rethink the school”, underlined Anne Hidalgo, referring to “a lack of anticipation” of the government on the occasion of the start of the school year.
“It’s time to sit down and look at what are the pedagogies, the organizations that work for the success of children”, underlined the city councilor, contesting the abolition of 170 classes in the capital and deploring “not hearing” this reflection in the political ranks. Despite the demographic decline in the capital, the 750 professorships of the City of Paris, in addition to the teachers of National Education for music, visual arts and sport, have been maintained, according to the town hall.
The City of Paris at the origin of the creation of 131 “oasis courtyards”
The 209 pupils of the Vitruve school participate in the organization and financing of “green classes”, “a project which allows all the children of the school to go to self-managed classes each year”, indicated to the press. the school coordinator, Laurence Delhommeau.
The intention of the Parisian municipality is “to support and organize the visibility of these experiences” to promote their dissemination, indicated the mayor. Anne Hidalgo also recalled that the town hall is behind the creation of 131 “oasis courtyards”, schoolyards with more vegetation and less asphalt, as well as “180 school streets”, streets made pedestrian or semi-pedestrian and vegetated.