A year after the assassination of Samuel Paty, at the time of the homage to this assassinated professor, many teachers express their anger. One of them, professor of history and geography at the college, agreed to testify on aufeminin.
Friday, October 15, a national tribute is paid to Samuel Paty in schools. Schools and establishments have the choice to organize a time of meditation in memory of Samuel Paty, and to devote one hour of class on Friday, October 15, 2021 to a time of exchanges, the content of which will be left to the choice of the teams according to their respective situations and taking into account in particular the age of the pupils. Many professors were extremely critical of the organization of this tribute. They denounce the fact that the number of hours devoted to moral and civic education, an opportunity to talk about secularism or freedom of expression, has not increased.
On Twitter, the rant of a teacher was taken up a lot, commented on and did not fail to react. Employed for 13 years in a college in the Paris suburbs, she explains her anger at the tribute organized for Samuel Paty.
“A tribute of appearance”, according to the teacher
Asked by aufeminin, the one who defines herself as a “teacher against the institution”, testifies to her anger and her strong will to remain mobilized for her students. She denounces an apparent homage according to her, sloppy in 2020 as in 2021, with too little information as teachers, and opportunities to express themselves for the students.
“Today, my feeling and that of my colleagues (even if I cannot speak on their behalf) is anger, shared by many, against an institution and a ministry. Why? Because, not only it There was anger in the moments shortly after the assassination, and the sources of discontent do not dry up. secularism campaign ” she accuses. She says she refuses to integrate into what she considers to be an exercise in communication, which does not serve the teachers.
A thread on Twitter to explain yourself
Why did she refuse the invitation to come and participate in the national tribute to Samuel Paty alongside Jean-Michel Blanquer with one of her third grade classes? The teacher, who chose EveEntaille as her nickname on Twitter, explains it in several messages posted on the social network.
Denounce a contempt for teachers that harms students
A year later, the emotion is intact and lively. “What was beneficial in the aftermath of the tragedy was to pay tribute on November 2, 2020, but also solidarity within the profession”, says EveEntaille. The teacher also denounces the contempt felt for teachers by the National Education, crystallized according to her in the suicide of Christine Renon, a week before the assassination of Samuel Paty. This school principal in Pantin had committed suicide in the courtyard of her school, exhausted by the accumulation of administrative tasks and alone in the face of relational difficulties with the parents of students, feeling abandoned by the National Education.
EveEntaille adds: “To people who do not understand: we refuse a tribute that we judge on the surface. We want to put into it the values that we have decided to teach and serve; Samuel Paty has integrated our courses today; last year’s tribute was a model of the opposite of pedagogy with an anachronistic letter and no time for discussion behind “. The teacher explains that she is committed to serving her students and the subject she teaches above all. In her college today, the flags are at half mast and the teachers are in mourning, she says.