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Whistles, calls and even the sound of pots and pans… Around thirty people warmly welcomed the new Minister of National Education this Tuesday, January 16, mired in the controversy she sparked over public schools.
“Do like your children, go back to the private sector!” shouts a teacher while the Minister of National Education, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, at the heart of a controversy linked to the schooling of her children, arrives this Tuesday, January 16 at 11:45 a.m. in front of the Littré public school, from where she had removed his eldest son fifteen years ago to put him in Stanislas, a private Catholic establishment. The minister, with a closed face, holds the gaze of this teacher who stares at her before looking for the entrance to the school located in a narrow street in the chic 6th arrondissement of Paris. Then she disappears without a word after being heavily whistled and booed by the forty demonstrators present, the majority of them trade unionists from SnuiPP, the leading primary school teachers’ union. Who chant: “Enough of this policy that is destroying public schools!”, “contempt, that’s enough, respect now!”
At their side, around fifty journalists who took notes and filmed the scene, all kept aside on the sidewalk opposite by around thirty police officers dispatched to the scene. Yvan, the school teacher who has just questioned the minister, admits by puffing on his electronic cigarette that he “pleases”. He needed it. “We relieve ourselves as best we can after having been humiliated by his charge against