2024-01-16 23:47:00
During his press conference, Tuesday January 16, Emmanuel Macron tried to put out a fire started by Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, just a few hours after her appointment to the Ministry of Education, and undermining the macronie. The one who is also Minister of Sports and the Olympic and Paralympic Games targeted teachers, explaining that she had had to place her children in a private school to avoid “the lot of hours not seriously replaced in the public school”.
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For the President of the Republic, “AOC” made an “awkward comment”, but “she was right to apologize”, he said, assuring that “there is no conflict between the two schools” and that “France, the Republic is strong in all these systems”.
Tackles unreplaced hours
Without mentioning his minister by name, the head of state indicated that “the choice of the school where we send our children is a private choice. We don’t have to judge people, put them on trial on this and then, we must do everything so that we have a public school, which meets the best standards and which is strong, and a private school under contract which is as strong as possible and which fully respects the rules of the Republic.
Emmanuel Macron also assured that he would “continue to forcefully attack” non-replaced hours in teaching, so that “every student has a teacher for each hour of lessons that is planned”.
READ ALSO Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, from revelations to calls for resignation: what you need to knowHe also said he was a “child of both schools”. “I went to secular and private contract schools, I saw committed teachers to whom I owe a lot. So, I think that there is no conflict between the two schools to be had,” he continued, reaffirming his total support for Amélie Oudéa-Castéra: “The minister will succeed in her task with the teachers” .
Work “in peace”
Tuesday morning, the minister went to the Littré school to present an “apology” in person, declaring “regrets[er] for having cited them by name” to the press microphones. “I want them to be able to be spared a little from all this and work peacefully again,” she added.
On site, she declared having had “a useful, constructive conversation, in which we discussed the future of the school together. They shared with me their expectations, their vision of how to improve and address the school’s problems. It is this road map that I will continue to carry, by remaining attentive,” she concludes.
READ ALSO Oudéa-Castéra controversy: the minister calls for an end to “personal attacks”But the story won’t end there. In addition to calls for resignation, the minister is now the target of a defamation complaint filed by a union of public employees in National Education.
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