Better to avoid adding a conflict of interest to the controversy. This Thursday, the entourage of Amélie Oudéa-Castéra announces that the Minister of Education has asked the Prime Minister to relinquish the report on the private Catholic establishment Stanislas, where her children are educated, and the follow-up of its recommendations .
At the origin of the spotlighting of the school after a “blunder” live, she asked to “deport herself from the acts relating” to Stanislas, school accused of “abuses” in a general inspection report of the National Education last summer. According to this same source confirming information from BFMTV, the head of government, Gabriel Attal, accepted this request, indicated the minister’s entourage.
A recommendation from the HATVP
This decision “comes following a recommendation made by the High Authority for the Transparency of Public Life (HATVP)”, nevertheless specifies a close source.
The National Education report published Tuesday by Mediapart notes in particular “abnormalities in the application of the association contract” of the establishment with the State, such as the obligation to follow catechism classes, which is contrary to the law.
“Drifts” also in the content of these courses, according to the report, which underlines that “certain catechists express personal convictions which go beyond the positions of the Catholic Church, for example on abortion” or “likely to be classified criminally on homosexuality.
A controversy impossible to put down
In her defense, the new Minister of Education assured that this report had “been commissioned in February 2023, and completed at the beginning of August 2023”. “And immediately Gabriel Attal (then Minister of Education) asked the rectorate and the general inspectorate to follow an action plan which includes almost 15 measures,” she declared on France 2.
The management of this posh establishment in the 6th arrondissement and the diocese of Paris believe that this report does not validate the serious criticisms relayed in several recent journalistic investigations.
Mired in controversy since the day after her appointment and her justifications for having transferred her eldest son from a public nursery school to the Stanislas private school, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra caused an outcry by pointing out “lots of hours not seriously replaced” in the public.
The minister quickly tried to defuse the situation by saying she “regretted” having “could have hurt certain teachers”. But the controversy continues to be fueled by the teaching unions, as well as the left and the far right, who accuse him of having lied and demand his resignation.