2023-07-21 20:40:06
A symbolic visit. The day after his appointment rue de Grenelle, the Minister of National Education Gabriel Attal went to the Paris suburbs on Friday to visit the reconstruction site of a school destroyed during the riots following the death of Nahel killed by a police officer. “I wanted to go to an establishment affected by the riots”, thinking of “families, staff and elected officials traumatized by what happened”, declared the successor of Pap Ndiaye, in front of the elementary school Bois de l’Etang in La Verrière (Yvelines).
At the start of the school year, some 170 children from this establishment will be educated at the Regional Primary School, made available by the Ile-de-France region. The mother of an elementary school pupil told AFP that her 10-year-old son had “not really liked the idea of going elsewhere” at the start of the next school year. “But I explained to him that we could not do otherwise, that his school burned down, that he is not the only one to change schools and that the whole teaching team leaves with him” in the new establishment, detailed this mother, Hounas Nacia.
“A dozen (establishments) completely destroyed”
Gabriel Attal estimated at “more than 200” the number of schools damaged by the riots triggered by the death of young Nahel on June 27, including “a dozen completely destroyed”.
“All students will have schooling solutions, and what matters to me is that this schooling is stable. You have to put yourself in the shoes of the students and the families” and take into account “the school transport time and the pricing of the canteen”, he added.
The new minister was surrounded by local elected officials, including the senator from Yvelines and president of the Senate, Gérard Larcher (LR), or William Martinet, LFI deputy from Yvelines who questioned him on the priority education networks (REP).
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