Teachers also denounce overcrowded classes and an “unprecedented loss of resources”.
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Shock for 500 students before entering their classrooms. A high school in Vénissieux, in the suburbs of Lyon, and its staff were targeted on Thursday October 3 around 8 a.m. by mortar fire and stone throwing, even though unions had denounced this risk of incident at the rectorate since the last year.
“Pyrotechnic projectiles were thrown in front of the Sembat-Seguin school complex, at the entrance level. Shopping carts, self-service bicycles and a car parked nearby were set on fire, damaging the enclosure and entrance gates. specifies the prefecture in a press release indicating that three individuals “suspected of having taken part in this malicious act have been identified“.
When they intervened, the police had to use a tear gas grenade to disperse the students. According to a source close to the file at franceinfo, the high school videos are being used.
The facts took place when a meeting between teachers and parents was to be held on Thursday evening to exclude students from the high school after a throwing of projectiles with broken glass which had taken place during the week in a class. Planned before the incidents, this meeting brought together around twenty parents, teachers and management who logically ended up discussing the morning’s mortar fire.
“It was high school students who did this. They want to block the high school so that there are no classes. I think we need cameras. The police can’t be there all the time.”
Sophia, a mother of a studentat franceinfo
Sophia, mother of a student, recounted her son’s fright: “I’m outraged. Why so much violence? My oldest was ‘gassed’ towards the tram, because they attacked the tram afterwards. He was scared. What scares me is the atmosphere that reigns in this high school with children who are not motivated to go to class because they don’t want to work, students who prevent other students from working. . There is the Bac which is at stake at the end of the year.”
With positions eliminated and classes of 35 students, the situation is explosive, estimates Patrick Samzun, philosophy teacher and Sud Education union member.
“Since the start of the school year, we have had two hearings at the rectorate and we have warned of an unprecedented loss of resources. This is the first time that numbers have exploded to this extent in technological series.”
Patrick Samzun, professor of philosophyat franceinfo
It is actually much more difficult to manage the academic difficulty of our students. We know very well that when there are more human resources, we can reduce tension.” And a mother of a student concludes with a sigh: “The tension will drop for a few days, but nothing is resolved“.