Deprived of re-entry. In Bagneux, almost a week after D-Day, 21 students still do not know in which school they will spend their year. The problem affects all of Ile-de-France this year. In Paris, for example, a hundred children were in the same situation.
“These figures change every day”, explained last week to the Parisian, the academies of Paris, Versailles and Créteil. “We are in a normal re-entry adjustment phase. All the students will be affected, ”assures the Créteil academy.
But in the meantime, families “stress”. “The longer it lasts, the more worrying,” observes Yasmine Boudjenah, first deputy mayor of Bagneux, in charge of education. Since July, the elected official has been in contact with several families of the town without assignment. Thirty-two teenagers from Bagneux were identified at the time by the FCPE, the local association of parents of pupils.
Most students apply for a place in a second class in the sector high school, Maurice-Genevoix, in Montrouge. “They are all entitled to it, insists Yasmine Boudjenah. It’s almost an entire class! Since the start of the school year last Tuesday, some families have won their case. But others, 21 according to the FCPE, are still in the background in Bagneux.
“A way to make children feel guilty”
“This is the first time that there are so many, remembers Yasmine Boudjenah. It has been several years that we observe an increase in enrollment in the school. But she had managed to be absorbed until now. “
The town hall and the FCPE therefore organized, “at the last minute”, a meeting with several families, this Saturday, at the town hall. “We wanted to put them in touch so that they feel less isolated”, explains Ludovic Favero, administrator of the FCPE in Bagneux.
“It is also a way of relieving the guilt of children, of making them understand that it has nothing to do with them,” adds Yasmine Boudjenah. Some have no explanation. “
“I have been fighting for my son for weeks”
At the end of the meeting, to which eleven families presented themselves, a collective, called the Collectif des sans-école, was created. Karima Smaïl, mother of Morjan, is one of them. “I have been fighting for my son for weeks and I realize that I am not the only one,” she breathes.
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This mother of a family has lost count of the calls made to the academic management and the rectorate since the beginning of the summer. Each time, “no answer”.
“I feel completely abandoned,” she blurted out, bitter. My son worked a lot during the lockdown. He had his certificate, his passage in general second was validated. And he finds himself with nothing. Why my son? I did not give birth to it to abandon it. “
In 2019, the situation had continued “until All Saints’ Day” for some students
The mother fears that this non-return will have repercussions on Morjan’s education. “He’s bad, he doesn’t want to go out anymore,” she confides. He is losing all motivation. It is not for him to pay the price for poor organization… ”
So what to do? Several parents have raised the possibility of legal action. In the meantime, the town hall intends to set up a “somewhat informal” educational support system for these 21 young people.
Last year, repeaters in terminal had not found a high school at the start of the school year. “For some, it had lasted until the All Saints holidays. We were scalded by this situation, remembers Yasmine Boudjenah. We don’t know at all how long it will last this time… So, we anticipate. “
Volunteer teachers to the rescue
From next week, lessons will therefore be given by volunteer teachers, a few hours a week. “We are in the process of creating a network. A retired professor, who lives in Bagneux, is looking for volunteers, ”explains the elected official.
The place will not be trivial. In a few years, a high school must be built in Bagneux, on the Mathurins site, deserted by the general management of armaments in 2016. And it is there, near this site, that Yasmine Boudjenah would like, symbolically, to organize the ‘school support for those without high school. “This situation shows that we need this high school,” she says. It’s urgent. “
In Neuilly, Lenny finally made his comeback in 6th LP/M.G.
They were distraught. Florence and Stéphane, residents of Neuilly-sur-Seine, wrote to the editorial staff of Le Parisien, via the contact form, deploring the situation of their ten-year-old son Lenny, who had no assignment at the sector college, located a few meters from the family apartment.
Thursday noon, in order to get news, we called Florence back who explained to us “relieved” that Lenny “finally got her assignment at Pastor.” The principal himself called me. Lenny was therefore able to make his comeback in 6th.
Two days before, he had had to stay at home, while 12.4 million students in France made their comeback. The family had moved from Levallois to Neuilly in early July. “At the rectorate we were then told that Lenny would have priority to go to Pasteur,” Florence recalls. Summer has passed but no official posting mail had arrived.
