Question 18834 — teaching

Summary

Mr. Sébastien Nadot alerts the Minister of National Education and Youth to the recent civil service strike day of March 19, 2019, experienced with great bitterness in the ranks of the Toulouse educational community. Mobilized teachers were sprayed with tear gas that Tuesday morning by the police. The videos, widely relayed on social networks, show the teachers being gassed to the point carrying and throwing to the ground, in front of the Toulouse rectorate. They were accused of “locking” access to and exit from the rectorate buildings. Being more of a filtering barrier since they had previously let in candidates who were taking an exam, the striking teachers were dislodged without warning by the police, while a service vehicle had to leave the rectorate. The very violent images of the incident are worrying. It is first of all the image of servants of the State which is tainted. Whether we interpret the action of the teachers to prove them wrong or right, this incident undermines the authority of the State either through the methods used by the police on this day of strike or that of the teachers, subscribing to processes which lead to violence when they must educate our youth. It is then, perhaps, forget French history. As a parliamentarian, the deputy would like to remind him of these words from Jaurès, pronounced in the Hemicycle during the session of June 21, 1894 on the freedom of teaching staff (for having taken part in socialist demonstrations, several professors and teachers have just been hit with very severe disciplinary measures by Jacques Spuller, then minister of public education): "I do not ask that one thing is that we let them go their way, that we let them serve the Republic with all their heart, in freedom and as they want to serve it; no oppression, because they have the right, after all, not to have the same formula of the Republic as the ministers who pass; if they let fall from their conscience the confession of a preference for a formula of the Republic other than yours, do not humiliate them, do not hit them not, in the name of the Republic itself, because one day you will perhaps need to find in them untamed defenders.” Finally, it characterizes the abdication of a method, that which consists of exhausting all solutions before using force. Of course, we cannot ignore the school context. As with any reform (the one that will be initiated behind the “law for a school of trust”), the upheavals are unavoidable. Of course, the country is experiencing a period of demonstrations with its share of excesses and violence which sometimes require extremely firm responses. But can we believe in a constructive path that opposes violence to angry teachers or professors when we know their daily lives, when we know their background, when we do not doubt their dedication? He asks him if all the possibilities of the dialogue have really been exhausted to get there, in France, in 2019.

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