2024-01-15 04:01:49
Controversy within controversy. The choice of the new Minister of Education Amélie Oudéa-Castéra to send her children to private school was not linked to problems of non-replacement of teachers as she claimed, according to information on Sunday from Releasewhich the minister denied.
Just appointed, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra sparked a controversy on Friday by justifying her decision to transfer her children to the private sector by her “frustration” with “the bundles of hours” of teaching not replaced during the absences of teachers at school. public school.
According to Libération, only Amélie Oudéa-Castéra’s eldest son was briefly educated in the public sector, in a small nursery section. The newspaper reports a testimony from his then teacher, in 2009 in the Littré public school, in the 6th arrondissement of Paris.
The minister denies
According to this testimony, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra and her husband decided to send their son to the private Stanislas establishment, close to their home, because the Littré school had refused them early passage for their son in the middle section, judging the student is still too small. And not for a problem of absence, according to this testimony.
Still speaking to the newspaper Libération, the minister did not deny having educated her son for only six months in the public sector. However, she contested the reasons for the latter’s departure mentioned by her former teacher. “I don’t know where you get this element from the truth,” she declared, before assuring that she and her husband were “regularly disturbed in [leur] organization because classes were skipped.”
Reason why she “asked Stan for a meeting, because we lived on rue Stanislas. Not for ideological reasons, I am not Catholic.”
“Hurtful remarks”
Saying she is unable to recall the name of the teacher at the time, nor if her son entered public school in January 2009 as the teacher who testified said, she still affirms to Libération that he “n “It is not excluded that this is the hypothesis.”
Later this Sunday, her entourage informed AFP that “the Minister of National Education categorically denies the comments reported by Libération. » “We can wonder about the intention linked to these inaccurate, inappropriate and hurtful comments for parents about their child almost 15 years later,” the same source said.
“Like all parents, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra and Frédéric Oudéa have always had the well-being of their child as a priority and implied that they would have made a choice that would go against their values and development. of their little boy deeply hurts them,” we added.
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