“My words yesterday may have suggested that I underestimated the difficulties they are going through. This is not the case”, assured the elected Renaissance Claire Guichard.
Remarks by Renaissance MP Claire Guichard regarding AESH (accompanying students with disabilities), made Friday at the National Assembly, have raised a wave of criticism in recent hours. She apologized on Saturday.
“A local elected official committed to early childhood for 20 years, I know that AESH devote their lives to society”, she wrote on Twitter. “My words yesterday may have led people to think that I am understating the difficulties they are going through. This is not the case. Also, I apologize to those they have hurt.”
She explained that AESH are “mothers who stopped working at one time to take care of their children, they choose this status to have Wednesdays during school holidays and they assume, it’s a choice”.
Several elected officials from the opposition and AESH denounced these remarks, recalling the low remuneration of this profession and its precariousness.
