It is a symbolic move to try to extinguish the first crisis of the Attal government. The Minister of Education Amélie Oudéa-Castéra will go this Tuesday to the Littré public school, from where she had taken her eldest son to put him in the private sector.
The visit to this establishment in the 6th arrondissement of Paris will take place “at the end of the morning”, “to meet the teachers and the management team of the establishment, and to discuss with them”, it was specified in the minister’s entourage, confirming information from BFMTV.
Disgruntled unions
Since Friday, having barely settled into her new role, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra has been forced to justify the registration of her three sons at the Stanislas school, a prestigious private establishment in the beautiful districts of the capital. A choice motivated by “lots of hours not seriously replaced” in the public, she explained on Friday. Comments experienced as a provocation by the unions, to the point that Amélie Oudéa-Castéra immediately said she “regretted” having “could have hurt certain teachers”.
But the second salvo did not take long: Sunday evening, the newspaper Release undermined the minister’s defense. According to a now retired teacher, the parents wanted their son to skip a grade, a wish to which the Littré public elementary school had opposed.
Roussel requests his resignation
Revelations seized by the oppositions. “It’s a lie which disqualifies her from continuing to occupy this position,” said Manuel Bompard (LFI) on France Info, while the communist Fabien Roussel estimated on X that “it is time to resign”.
Furthermore, in a letter to the minister published by Release Monday evening, parents of students or former students of the Littré school defended this establishment and criticized “general”, “reductive” and “stigmatizing” comments. They express their “deepest attachment to the school of the Republic and in particular to our Littré school, so unfairly called into question for the needs of your personal and individual situation”.
Strikes on January 25 and February 1
It is in this very tense context that the minister began her meetings with each of the unions, to discuss the priorities of her ministry.
“All the teachers felt hurt, humiliated,” declared Sophie Vénétitay, general secretary of Snes-FSU, the first secondary school union (middle and high schools), after her meeting on Monday. In the absence of a “public apology”, “clear response” or “commitment”, the FSU “cut the meeting short”. Elisabeth Allain-Moreno, from SE-Unsa, indicated that the minister had “apologized”: “she regretted, she was aware that it had really hurt within the profession” and “she recognized an error “. The unions have also called for strikes on January 25 and February 1.