2023-11-30 13:12:10
Striking teachers gather in front of the entrance to Kléber college, after a teacher received a death threat, in Strasbourg, November 30, 2023. FRANCK KOBI / PHOTOPQR/DNA/MAXPPP
Around thirty teachers gathered on the morning of Thursday, November 30, in front of the Kléber college in Strasbourg, where a French teacher was threatened with death by a student. The establishment remained closed on Thursday due to a strike following the incident.
“One of our colleagues was threatened with death on Tuesday afternoon by a 3rd grade student whose cell phone he had confiscated. The student told him: “I’m bringing friends back from the outing, I’ll kill you.”explained to Agence France-Presse (AFP) Gilles Comte, professor of history and geography, who participated in this gathering ” to show [la] solidarity [du corps enseignant] ». According to him, there were thirty-seven strikers among the thirty-eight teachers who were to have classes on Thursday.
“It’s the straw that breaks the camel’s back, there are lots of incidents”he continued, explaining that, since the start of the school year, a “colleague was attacked by a former student who had entered the establishment with two other students”and that there was also “three firecracker explosions inside the establishment”.
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“There is no communication, no support from management, we feel like we are abandoned”, regretted Mr. Comte. He specified that his colleague targeted by the death threats was a teacher who “invests a lot” and who was ” very touched “ by the incident. He filed a complaint on Tuesday afternoon and has since been on sick leave.
Temporary exclusion of the student who made the threats
A precautionary measure was taken against the student who made the threats, excluded from the establishment until his appearance before the disciplinary council, scheduled for December 19. “We can no longer do our job well”testified Charlotte Serisier, French teacher, citing the “insults that recur very regularly”, “systematic student delays”the “triggering fire alarms” who became “the fashionable game since the start of the school year”.
With some seven hundred students, Kléber college is a “large establishment, with increased social diversity, which is good. We welcome students who come from REP + [réseaux de l’éducation prioritaire], but we do not have suitable means”she described, holding a sign asking “means to support all our students”.
The establishment also hosts a high school and preparatory classes. Jean-Pierre Gavrilovic, head of the National Union of High Schools, Colleges, Schools and Higher Education (SNALC) of the Strasbourg academy, told AFP that he was received by the head of the establishment on November 23 at the “following the sharp deterioration in working conditions reported by [ses] colleagues “ but that she had “kicked in”. The rectorate has, for the moment, not reacted.
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