2024-01-16 15:02:00
Amélie Oudéa-Castéra had justified the registration of her children in the private sector because of “the frustration of parents who saw lots of hours which were not seriously replaced” in her eldest son’s public school. The minister thus criticizes the fact that teachers absent from public schools are not replaced effectively enough. “And at one point, we got fed up, we made a choice to look for a different solution,” she added. Obviously, this justification caused an outcry in the educational world. Unions and the political opposition are already calling for his resignation.
The minister may have apologized, but her visit to the Littré public school was greeted with boos from trade unionists and parents this Tuesday morning.
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Especially since Libération learns that Amélie Oudéa-Castéra would have greatly exaggerated the reasons which pushed her to change her children’s schools. Only his eldest son went to public education. And only six months (between January and June 2009) in the nursery section, before moving to the private sector. The French daily found the teacher who had her son as a student at that time: “What the minister said was completely false, it horrified me,” she explained.
”I feel personally attacked. I was not absent and even if that were the case, we were always replaced. There has never been a replacement problem at Littré, which is a small, highly rated school,” she continued, deeply touched and angry following the minister’s comments, feeling clearly targeted.
According to the teacher, the real reason for Amélie Oudéa-Castéra’s son’s change of school, at the time, had nothing to do with “a bunch of hours not seriously replaced”, but the change was rather linked to the fact that his parents wanted him to skip a grade. “We refused, especially since it was to his disadvantage because he was not yet mature. We refused for his own good. His mother did not want him to end up with younger children, so they sent him to Stanislas, who accepted him,” explained the former teacher to our colleagues at Libération.
These new revelations should further fuel the opposition’s criticism of Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, whose position is becoming more and more untenable.
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