The rise of radicalism at school in France: how to teach freedom of expression?

Tribute to Samuel Paty in Paris, place de la République, Sunday October 19.

REUTERS / Pascal Rossignol

By: Raphaëlle Constant Follow

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Last Friday, Samuel Paty, a history teacher was brutally murdered when he left college in the Paris region.

He had shown his students during a moral and civic education class on freedom of expression, caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad;

This has generated virulent debates and threats, as evidenced by the multiple publications of students and some parents on social networks.Can we allow the protest to rise in secular schools in France and undermine the freedom of teaching?

Is it normal that 37% * of French teachers have already self-censored during their lessons?

What are the attacks on secularism today within the school and how are the teachers reacting?

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With:

Jean-Pierre Obin

, former Inspector General of National Education, author of

Alixe Rivière

, vice-president of the

(Federation of Parents' Councils) of Seine-Saint-Denis 

Frédérique Rolet

, General Secretary of

Christine Guimonnet

, Secretary General of the

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