“A lie that disqualifies her” from pursuing this function, according to Insoumis Manuel Bompard

Beyond the controversy, the deputy for France Insoumise finds that enrolling his children in the private sector is “disturbing” for a public school official. On the contrary, we must “show that we trust the school”.

The new Minister of National Education Amélie Oudéa-Castera “started with contempt and we realize that it is more than contempt, it is lies which disqualifies her from continuing to occupy this position”, protested Monday January 15 on franceinfo the coordinator of La France insoumise and deputy for Bouches-du-Rhône Manuel Bompard.

He reacts to the controversy, born from the revelation by Mediapart [article payant] that Amélie Oudéa-Castera’s three children are educated in a private Parisian establishment, the Stanislas college-high school, targeted by an administrative inspection for ultra-reactionary practices towards students. The minister defended herself, during a first trip on Friday to a college in Yvelines, indicating that she had first chosen the public but that she had decided to spend them in the private sector in the face of “frustration” duty “lots of hours not seriously replaced” in the audience. However, her son’s former teacher claims in the newspaper Release [article payant] never having been absent during the six months that this child spent at Littré public school.

Repeal the Carle Law

According to Manuel Bompard, the minister must “more than explaining”. He “finds it astonishing that we can consider that this changes nothing. We cannot lie like that in politics, it does a lot of damage to the credibility of political leaders”, he asserts. For him, it is not the education of his children in private school which is the most problematic in this controversy, since Pap Ndiaye, former Minister of National Education under the Borne government had “also enrolled his children in private school”. But, on a personal level, he finds that “disturbing” because “as the head of public schools, I find it good to show that we trust public schools.”

What he reproaches, first of all, to Amélie Oudéa-Castera is “his speech, to say that it was because the public school is in too bad a state, without saying that it is the policy of his government and the precedents which are responsible for the replacement problems at the school, and without telling us what she actually planned to do so that parents who cannot pay for private school can have a quality education” for their children. Manuel Bompard defended the position of La France insoumise on private schools: “We must repeal the Carle law, which forced municipalities to finance private schools”. He wishes that “public money be devoted entirely and exclusively to public schools” and thatprivate school is “financed by other funds, such as registrations”.