All schools in France will observe a minute of silence on Monday morning in tribute to Professor Samuel Paty.

Some teachers are already dreading this solemn moment, which comes more than two weeks after the assassination and in a context of anxiety-provoking health crisis. 

A minute of silence will be observed Monday at 11 a.m. in all schools in France.

From primary to high school, all students and teachers will pay tribute to Samuel Paty, assassinated in mid-October in front of his college in Yvelines.

The All Saints' Day holidays have postponed this solemn minute by 15 days, which some teachers already fear. 

"It will be a complicated moment. We do not know how this event was approached within families," notes Gilles Langlois, national secretary of the SE-Unsa teachers' union.

He particularly regrets that the minute of silence is observed on Monday without the teachers having time to meet to prepare for it, according to the decision of the Ministry of Education.

"The context is very anxiety-provoking. There is this event, which is now 15 days old. There is also the new health protocol. And then the attack in Nice, which adds to the anxiety."

A difficult event to discuss with young children

Another problem that the teachers will have to manage: how to approach the murder of Samuel Paty with children of 6 or 7 years?

"Some will learn at this point that a teacher has been killed. They can imagine that this is something that can happen in their school, so you have to explain to them that it has already happened, that it has happened. . And that the culprit is no longer able to harm ", explains the child psychiatrist Stéphane Clerget. 

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For Gilles Langlois, the most important thing now is that this type of subject is also discussed with the students under normal circumstances.

"What is important is to work on the appropriation of values. It is a real challenge for the school, which works over the long term, at appropriate times. It is not in a morning that the we will develop the students. "

He suggests that this type of subject be addressed at school every December 9, secularism day.