after accusations of Islamophobia against a professor, the teaching team of a college exercises its right of withdrawal

The teaching team at Jacques-Cartier college in Issou has been exercising its right of withdrawal since last Friday.

The Minister of National Education, Gabriel Attal, is on site this Monday afternoon to meet the teaching team. The teaching team at the Jacques-Cartier college in Issou, in Yvelines, has been exercising its right of withdrawal since Friday, December 8, after a French teacher was the target of accusations of racism and Islamophobia, we learned. this Monday France Inter at the Versailles academy.

The day before, as part of the study of a text with a 6th grade class at the establishment, this teacher showed the table Diana and Actaeon, by the Italian painter Giuseppe Cesari, on which five muses are naked, revealing their breasts. According to the academy, upon seeing this painting, “a handful of students” pointedly looked away. It was from this class that rumors began to circulate about the fact that this professor had made racist and Islamophobic comments.

The same evening, parents of students appeared in front of the establishment to obtain explanations on the comments that this teacher may have made. After this event, the head teacher of this class reported to the principal of the establishment, who himself reported to the Academy. Then, the teachers had the right to withdraw since Friday morning and still are this Monday. The professor concerned filed a complaint for slanderous denunciation.

Contacted by franceinfo, the Versailles public prosecutor’s office had still not received this complaint. This professor also requested functional protection so that National Education could assist her legally. Since September, according to the Versailles Academy, fifteen reports on this establishment have been made, several of which already concerned attacks on secularism.