Deeply affected by the attack, teachers fear back to school

A sign during the demonstration in Paris on October 18 in tribute to Samuel Paty.

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• The SCRT produced a four-page memo on teachers' reactions to the assassination of a history-geography teacher who had shown the Muhammad caricatures to his students during a class.

• The professors, whose words were released after the attack, deplore the lack of support from their superiors and experience a “feeling of abandonment”.

• "Fairly marked concerns relate to the moment of meditation which will take place at the start of the school year, Monday, November 2, and on the course of the day of secularism on Wednesday, December 9, likely to encourage provocative reactions from students", also notes the SCRT.

A few days after the Conflans-Sainte-Honorine attack, the SCRT (central territorial intelligence service) took the pulse of the teaching community, deeply marked by the tragedy.

In a confidential note, unveiled by

 and to which

had access, the service emphasizes that the teachers, currently on vacation, for the time being want "only to pay tribute to the deceased".

But the document fears that the assassination of Samuel Paty by Abdoullakh Anzorov will reactivate among teachers, from the start of the school year, "the debates which had begun to emerge following the presidential speech concerning the fight against separatism".

Speech release

The reactions of the trade unions say a lot about the state of mind of the teachers after the death of this history teacher, killed after showing caricatures of Muhammad to his students during a class. moral and civic education on freedom of expression.

SCRT analysts retain several in this four-page document released last Thursday.

Among them, that of SNPDEN (National Union of National Education Staff) which stresses the need to "denounce these repeated attempts at radical Islamism which seeks to impose by force and terror retrograde and obscurantist theocratic conceptions".

In general, "the attack seems to have freed the floor" of teachers, assures the SCRT.

They are more and more numerous to concede "to have self-censored to avoid an incident on the subject of secularism, more particularly in priority education zones".

Lack of support

It is also the lack of support from their administration that teachers denounce.

The Touche pas ma ZEP collective points out, on its Facebook page, "the feeling of abandonment experienced by teachers due to a" No wave "syndrome".

The “Red Pens” movement also believes that teachers are “never supported in the face of families and students who want to lay down the law”.

But its representatives go further and directly question "the hierarchy of national education", evoking "the visit of an inspector" and "the apologies" of Samuel Paty.

The SNUipp-FSU union is also offended by the fact that Samuel was obliged "to justify the content of his courses in front of the police after a complaint from the parents" and wonders "on the purpose of the arrival of an inspector of National Education "for a reminder of the rules" ".

According to the intelligence service, "this drama places the hierarchy of the administrative apparatus" at the foot of the wall ", while it is regularly accused of" minimizing or even stifling "incidents of all types".

In addition to unfailing support from their hierarchy during incidents, teachers "demand continuing training, in particular to better react and argue against parents of students or recalcitrant students".

Concerns for the start of the school year

The start of the school year will also be complicated for the teaching staff.

"They are anxious by the announcement of the observation of a minute of silence on Monday, November 2, as well as specific actions during the day of secularism scheduled for Wednesday, December 9," indicate the drafters of the note.

The reason ?

“Many of them remember the incidents that took place during the minute's silence following the attack on the editorial staff of

and the fact that they had to be listed, placing them here again, in the first line.

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However, recalls the note, the Secretary of State for Youth declared that "not to respect a symbol, our flag, a minute of silence for the death of a martyr of the Republic, that must be announced".

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