Europe 1 with AFP 2:50 p.m., March 29, 2024
A few days after the announcement of the early departure of the headmaster of the Ravel high school who had been threatened with death after asking a student to remove her veil, the main union of school heads spoke at a conference Press.
“We are standing and we will not back down”: the main union of school heads, SNPDEN-Unsa, spoke for the first time on Friday and provided its “support” to the principal of a Parisian high school who was threatened with death after an altercation with a student to get her to remove her veil. “We are standing, to say that we will not go back,” insisted Bruno Bobkiewicz, general secretary of SNPDEN-Unsa, the first union of school heads, during a press conference.
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“Heads of establishments are destabilized”
This union spoke out for the first time, four days after the announcement of the early departure of the headmaster of the Ravel high school, which caused great excitement among teachers and within the political class. “It is intolerable to be forced to stand back and be protected when you are the head of an establishment,” continued Mr. Bobkiewicz, announcing that his union had become a civil party in this affair.
At his side, Nicolas Bray, academic secretary of the same union, explained that this affair "shakes" the headmaster of Ravel, who, according to him, "needs time", "he must be protected". Bruno Bobkiewicz assured that “the heads of establishments are destabilized, because there is a global desire for destabilization” but “they know what they have to do and will continue to do it despite everything”.
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“An intolerable situation”
The majority union insisted on providing its “support” in the face of an “intolerable” situation. "Support towards both our colleague from Ravel, but also towards all of our colleagues, because we must still remember that this is the third situation identified in less than a year, in a identical context,” he said.
Following the tragedy of Samuel Paty, "Jean-Michel Blanquer had announced a generalized training plan for all national education personnel on secularism, but at this stage, it is insufficiently developed." “We need to accelerate in this area,” according to Bruno Bobkiewicz. “There is no negotiation possible, it’s all secularism, nothing but secularism, and there is no question of backing down on this subject,” he said. Nicolas Bray made a point of reminding us that it is “not their daily business to deal with serious incidents, a simple reminder of the law is enough to resolve concerns”.