Secularism: two years after the death of Samuel Paty, the fight for secularism in colleges and high schools

In a professional high school in the Paris suburbs, a garden has been created to honor the memory of Samuel throughout the year. patykilled after a course on free speech two years ago. “He didn’t deserve this, it’s not human“, says a student. “We have to keep talking about it“, estimates Frédéric Brain, professor of EPS. In a Parisian hotel school, a minute of silence was observed on Friday, October 14. Exchanges were also organized around issues of secularism.

However, the teaching of secularism has become complicated in certain establishments in recent years. A teacher ofhistory geographywho prefers to remain anonymous, does not refrain from anything, but she knows that certain themes give rise to many debates, in particular everything relating to the Second World War and the Shoah, but also homosexuality or even the ‘abortion. She continues to rely on cartoons to teach, but she knows some of her colleagues don’t. “We have more and more an omnipresence of religion“, she explains.