La Croix: In France, corporal punishment in schools was banned in 1803. But this practice lasted much longer. Why ? Eirick Prairat : The French school is indeed one of the first to have officially abolished corporal punishment. However, this practice continued until the 1970s and 1980s. Because the law is not enough. A shared […]
At the end of the national education strike day on Thursday January 13, the teacher unions were received by Prime Minister Jean Castex. After 3:30 a.m. of a meeting also attended by the Minister of Health Olivier Véran by videoconference and the Minister of Education Jean-Michel Blanquer, the latter announced the availability of “5 million […]
We had left Ronan Lessard at the end of the day on January 3. The head of the school Saint-Charles d’Athis-Mons (Essonne) was then both relieved and concerned. Relieved, because by mobilizing the school life staff, he had managed to internally replace the five absent teachers (out of 17) and to maintain an almost normal […]
The health protocol was updated in schools just a few days after the start of the school year. Students will no longer have to carry out a complete new screening route if a new positive case appears in their class within less than seven days. → READ. Vaccination for 5-11 year olds: the agreement of […]
It is a “sporting” recovery. On this return Monday, Ronan Lessard leaves his large office on the ground floor of the old castle which houses the administration of the Saint-Charles school complex in Athis-Mons. This middle-distance enthusiast starts off the tour of his 17 classes. “Happy New Year, good recovery, wear your masks well …” […]
Classes resume this Monday, January 3, without change of protocol. But how long can establishments operate with some semblance of normalcy? Many classes risk quickly reaching the closing threshold, set at three cases, and the absences of teachers could multiply. Before Christmas, the epidemiologist Arnaud Fontanet, member of the scientific council, evaluated at a third […]
Better recognize the commitment, the missions, the workload of some 45,000 school principals … Over time, this need has emerged. Especially since the news has sometimes come to shed a harsh light on the difficulties of the profession, as in the fall of 2019, marked by the suicide of a director of Seine-Saint-Denis. → INVESTIGATION. […]
It’s not easy to be a school principal during a Covid period. A recent study carried out by the SNPDEN union among its members shows that middle and high school management staff observe, in nine out of ten cases, a deterioration in their working conditions. Eight out of ten of them even evoke a loss […]
What is really the extent of attacks on secularism at school? On this Thursday, December 9, Secularism Day, the Ministry of Education publishes new figures, up. Between the start of the school year and mid-November, there were 614 reports, or 67 more than in the previous report (December 2020-March 2021). Several hypotheses are put forward: […]
This is a turning point: during the government press conference on Thursday, November 25, the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, indicated that steps would be taken for the vaccination of children, as is already done in the States. -United. A concomitant announcement with the green light given by the European Medicines Agency for the use […]