A back-to-school meeting that slips, a student “humiliated” and a handrail deposited. Accused of having asked a schoolgirl to get out of a classroom on all fours, the director of Villa Blanche, a private Catholic educational establishment in Menton (Alpes-Maritimes), will be the subject of a disciplinary proceedings, announced to Nice morning its supervisory authority.
“Nothing in the behavior of the student in question in any way justified the behavior of the headteacher, which he acknowledged. We therefore strongly disagree [son] attitude,” said the Congregation of the Hospitaller Sisters of Saint-Thomas de Villeneuve in a press release. The professional is on sick leave and the latter who “has been extended”, she also specifies.
He has “freaked out”
The facts actually date back to September 12 and have since caused a stir within the educational community. That day, when a rally was organized to launch the school year, the director, annoyed by the heckling of some students, could not bear a schoolgirl yawning ostensibly during her explanations. He would have “then freaked out”, according to a source interviewed by the regional daily.
He would have actually asked him to leave the room on all fours, confirmed the various parties. The family of the young schoolgirl, who filed a handrail, told Nice morning “the humiliation” experienced by their daughter who “had no choice but to comply, effectively putting herself on all fours in front of her comrades”. “She then took a few steps, then got up and ran out and cried,” they explained.