Will it move to “Stan”? This Wednesday, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra promised that the Stanislas school (6th arrondissement of Paris) will be the subject of an “action plan” followed with “rigor”. Accused of homophobic and sexist “abuses”, the private Catholic establishment has been in the spotlight since the Minister of Education’s declarations.
An even brighter light since the report commissioned by the general inspectorate was published by Mediapart Tuesday. This report, commissioned in February 2023, and completed at the beginning of August 2023, even advances non-compliant educational practices. The school management and the diocese of Paris believe that this document does not validate the serious criticisms relayed in the media.
Requested by Gabriel Attal (then Minister of Education)
“Gabriel Attal (then Minister of Education) asked the rectorate and the general inspectorate to follow an action plan which includes almost 15 measures,” declared Amélie Oudéa-Castéra on France 2. This plan “will be followed with all the necessary rigor,” added the minister, whose children are educated in this private Catholic school under contract, which welcomes 3,500 students from kindergarten to preparatory classes.
“I would like to point out that this report does not reveal any acts of homophobia or any cases of harassment. The only case of homophobia was the subject of a report to the prosecutor via the article 40 procedure,” said the minister, accused of having denigrated public education to justify the transfer of her eldest son to Stanislas.
“Abuses in the application of the association contract”
The director of the Stanislas school, Frédéric Gautier, was “surprised” by the publication of this report and affirmed that the inspectors “do not confirm the facts of homophobia, sexism and authoritarianism highlighted by the articles Press “. “We take note of the 14 recommendations in the report,” he added. These “must be the subject of in-depth work with the Paris rectorate”, he specified in a second press release this Wednesday. The establishment has “internally started to work” on those which depend on its “responsibility”.
The official report from National Education 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, 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.
The Minister Delegate responsible for the fight against discrimination, Aurore Bergé, called on the establishment to “comply with its obligations”.