In Guingamp, Perpignan, Bastia, Lille or even Bayonne, the demonstrators beat the pavement to demand a modification of the Constitution, after the censure by the Constitutional Council of an article of law allowing to teach in regional language at the school public.
Basques, Bretons, Catalans, Corsicans or Alsatians: thousands of people demonstrated on Saturday in different cities of France to defend “immersive teaching»In regional languages.
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«People are there because they are afraid that association schools will be closed. The decision of the Constitutional Council could deprive them of all their funding“And”calls into question a teaching method used for more than 50 yearsMorbihan MP Paul Molac (Libertés et Territoires), who was among the 6,000 Breton protesters in Guingamp (according to the prefecture, 10,000 according to the organizers), told AFP. He is the author of the law on regional languages, passed in the Assembly on April 8 and partially retouched on May 21 by the Constitutional Council, which censored the immersive method in school, ie teaching conducted largely in a language other than French, as well as the use of diacritical marks such as the tilde (~) in civil status records.
In Bayonne, 10,000 people according to the organizers, 6,000 according to the police, demonstrated in the streets of the city, in a calm and family atmosphere, but with fierce determination. “We need solutions so that one in five children in kindergarten is not found unconstitutional at the start of the school year“, Claimed Peio Jorajuria, president of the Federation of immersive associative schools, known as ikastola, where 5,000 children are educated. In tight rows, the children marched behind the signs of their respective schools.
In Perpignan, a thousand Catalans also marched to the sound of drums, waving flags “sang et or». «Looks like they don’t know what an immersive school is. They believe that we do not learn French», Lamented Elena Gual, director of the Arrels school, a public immersion school in Perpignan.
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In Bastia, Corsican polyphonic songs closed at noon a demonstration of just under 200 people, including the leader of the independence movement “Corsica LiberaAnd President of the Assembly of Corsica, Jean-Guy Talamoni, before the academic inspection for the defense of the Corsican language. Two banners were unfurled with the message “So that our languages live».
«It is a fundamental mobilization. The Constitutional Council denied a democratic fact. What is happening is extremely serious. It calls into question all the teaching devices of the Corsican language”Said Ghjiseppu Turchini, a Corsican language teacher, at the microphone.
In Lille, around 40 people have asked the rectorate for primary education in Picard and the recruitment of Flemish teachers.
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