REPORTAGE
In Marseille, justice ruled that the town hall was wrong. The small and very small kindergarten sections of the city did not reopen after confinement. The town hall had decided unilaterally to keep these classes closed until September. The administrative court now requests their reopening, the coronavirus not being considered as a compelling reason for closure. But the decision, made on Friday, is not yet followed up. Children three years and under, or 10,000 Marseille students, remain without school.
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"No compelling reason making closure necessary"
In a summary decision on Friday, the administrative court said yes to the reopening of these classes requested by parents of students who had brought the matter to justice. According to the administrative court there is a right to education and instruction and there is no compelling reason making the general closure of certain levels necessary.
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However, three days later, in front of the Désirée-Clary school, classified Rep, which should have accommodated around twenty children from small and very small kindergarten sections, no information for parents, nothing displayed on the panels, despite this court decision. On the city side, it is explained that it is necessary for the moment to identify all the families which actually want to put the children back in class.
A "lack of consideration of parents and their children"
As for the parents interviewed by Europe 1, they are ready to accept a reunification of the children to allow a resumption of contact with the school as a minimum and as quickly as possible. For these parents, it was unthinkable to deprive the little ones of school until September, as denounces Nassima, mother of a little Leah. "My first motivation is Lea's return to school, since she really wants to go back to see her friends, to find her bearings, to find her master, Mr. Richard, to be in contact with others, to find a normal life, to be deconfigured, like us. " "She doesn't see it well because overnight it stopped, nothing left," said the student's mother.
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She also denounces the authorities' lack of communication at the time of the closure, and the silence since. "We really took it as a slap, we said to ourselves it's not possible, it's fake news. What shocks me the most is the lack of information, the lack of consideration of parents and their children. " For Nassima, the problem is not the reopening in June itself, "it is not the story of a month, it is the story of six months of rupture, from March to September and that is not admissible, that's why we went to court ".