Camille Moreau / Photo credits: FRANK PERRY / AFP 10:33 a.m., March 6, 2024
On the front line, teachers are increasingly targeted by the aggressiveness of students, but also that of their parents.
Claudine, principal of a Parisian high school, found herself facing the anger of parents during a disciplinary council.
In office for 13 years, she admits to never having been confronted with such behavior.
Insults, threats, blows... Teachers are increasingly exposed to violence from their students... But also from their parents.
While the Senate must submit a report this Wednesday on the subject, examples of teachers being threatened are multiplying in the press.
And school leaders are not spared from the facts either.
Claudine*, principal in a Parisian high school, suffered the anger of parents during a disciplinary council last week.
“The student's mother stood up and told me that she knew in which district of Paris I lived and that she was going to find me,” she confided to the microphone of Europe 1, visibly still in shock.
“Things can go far”
"She told me: 'We'll find you'. As she left the school, she said to a certain number of students: 'The principal, that big bitch, I'm going to screw her mother'", relates -she.
Despite the violence of the words, the head of the establishment does not want to tremble.
"I've been in management for 13 years and this is the first time I've had a threat from parents like that. I tell myself that we shouldn't be afraid, that we shouldn't show young people that we are afraid.”
But Claudine keeps in mind the fate of Samuel Paty and Dominique Bernard, two professors murdered by Islamists in 2020 and 2023 respectively. "The latest events have shown us that things could go far."
She now believes that “dams have been broken. We are seen as enemies, we are not seen as partners. And what strikes me is really this distrust.
This year, it’s very marked,” she concludes.
*The first name has been changed