Double Standards in Private Education: Comparing Lille Averroès and Stanislas

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While the administrative court examines on January 24 the appeals filed by the establishment’s lawyers, who contest the end of the association contract with the State, many denounce a “double standard”, with regard to the Stanislas affair.

In Lille, the comparison flourishes. On the one hand, the withdrawal of approval inflicted on the Lille Averroès Muslim high school; on the other, the lack of sanctions against Stanislas, a prestigious Parisian Catholic establishment. The dominant feeling is that of double standards, even in public education unions, traditionally opposed to state financing of the private sector.

“In both cases, we have accusations of attacks on the values ​​of the Republic,” remarks Jean-François Carémel, academic secretary Snes-FSU. “But the future of one would be compromised by an impossibility of access to works dealing with homosexuality, and not that of the other?” An allusion to the inspection report on Stanislas, which contained homophobic remarks. “We obviously have priorities for action that are not the same,” he notes.

Pierre Mathiot, the very active director of Sciences-Po Lille, support of Averroès since December, at the start of the turbulence, is jubilant: “Compared to Stanislas, what we criticize Averroès is a joke.” He becomes serious again: “What is very serious is the feeling of profound injustice on the side of the Republic that French people of Muslim faith feel.”

“The Muslim ethics course is optional”

This Wednesday January 24

2024-01-23 17:56:03
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