A photo of the decapitated professor Samuel Paty during a tribute to Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, October 20, 2020. -

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The start of the All Saints holidays will be postponed to 10 a.m. on Monday 2 November in all schools, where a tribute will be paid to Samuel Paty, the teacher beheaded during an attack in Conflans, subject to the decisions taken in the face of the Covid- 19 do not change the situation.

The Minister of Education Jean-Michel Blanquer had promised Sunday a "clear framing" to respond to the concerns of teachers on the start of the November 2 school year and the speech to be given to students on the savage assassination of their colleague, which occurred on eve of the holidays.

"The principle of educational freedom has been reaffirmed"

This Tuesday, during a video conference with the teaching unions, the ministry further clarified things.

All students will return to school at 10:00 am to give the teaching teams time to prepare and discuss.

Secondly, a “pedagogical sequence” will be organized in the classes to talk about the facts again and reaffirm the republican principles such as freedom of expression.

Resources adapted to each level (nursery, primary, secondary, etc.) will be "made available" to teachers but they will remain free to use them or not, welcomed Stéphane Crochet, of the SE-Unsa union.

"The principle of pedagogical freedom has been reaffirmed", also approved Jean-Rémi Girard, from Snalc.

Reading of Jaurès and minute of silence

Thirdly, between 11 am and 11:30 am, the students will be gathered for a reading of Jean Jaurès' “letter to teachers”.

A reading that can be done in some cases in the presence of elected officials, but without speaking on their part.

The sequence will end with a minute of silence.

"Normally, all the students will be gathered but it will take into account the health situation," said Frédérique Rolet, Snes-FSU, the first secondary school union.

The vagueness of health decisions

The tribute as a whole could in any case be upset by possible new decisions taken in the face of the deterioration of the health context, recalled all the unions.

Emmanuel Macron takes stock Tuesday morning during a defense council on the Covid-19 epidemic to prepare a new turn of the screw of the fight measures, which could go as far as a reconfinement.

According to teachers' unions, a new meeting with the Ministry of Education on the subject is scheduled for the weekend, "probably Friday".

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