Woman, black and headmistress of high school: what diversity of executives in national education in France?

Mahi Traoré, Principal Astrid di Crollalanza

By: Chantal Lorho Follow

1 min

In front of the school, she is taken for the nanny, if she is standing in front of the high school box, she is taken for the lady on duty or for a supervisor if she accompanies students on a school trip ...

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All his life Mahi Traoré refused to be assigned to his skin color and his Malian origins.

At 48, the first black African woman to become principal of a Parisian high school, she continues to deal with condescension vis-à-vis French citizens from diverse backgrounds.

What about the heads of establishments from Maghrebian immigration to the National Education?

Can the Republican School promote the social lift for its students with so little diversity at its head?  

With :

Mahi Traoré

, school principal in Paris, author of 

I'm black but I'm not complaining, I could have been a woman

 (Robert Laffont) 

Radouane Mhamdi

, Departmental Secretary of Seine-Saint-Denis of

the National Union of National Education Management Staff, SNPDEN UNSA 

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