For his first trip as Minister of Education, Gabriel Attal went to the Paris suburbs on Friday to visit the reconstruction site of a school destroyed during the riots at the end of June, after the death of a young man killed by a policeman.
“I wanted to go to an establishment affected by the riots”, thinking of “families, staff and elected officials traumatized by what happened”, declared the new tenant of rue de Grenelle, appointed Thursday to succeed Pap Ndiaye, in front of the Bois de l’Etang elementary school in La Verrière (Yvelines).
At the start of the school year, some 170 children from this establishment will be educated at the Regional School of the first degree, made available by the Ile-de-France region.
The mother of an elementary school student told AFP that her 10-year-old son “didn’t really like the idea of ??going somewhere else” 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.
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 the 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 “school transport time and canteen prices”, 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).
21/07/2023 17:38:29 – La Verriere (France) (AFP) – © 2023 AFP
