difficult teaching 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 Paty throughout the year, killed after a course on freedom of expression two years ago. “He didn’t deserve this, it’s not human“, testifies 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, Friday, October 14. Discussions were also organized around questions of secularism.

Secularism, a teaching that has become complicated

However, the teaching of secularism has become complicated in certain establishments in recent years. A history and geography professor, who 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 to homosexuality or 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.