EDITORIAL. The Minister of National Education, Gabriel Attal, has been omnipresent since the start of the school year

School is doing badly. Just a week ago, a second professor was the victim of an Islamist attack, three years after Samuel Paty. The teaching world is traumatized by this tragedy. Traumatized and angry, we measured him on Thursday October 19 during the funeral of Dominique Bernard with the silent presence of Emmanuel Macron. The head of state, usually so voluble, deprived of speech. As a symbol of the powerlessness of the State in the face of the threat of Islamist terrorism.
Gabriel Attal has been talking since the start of the school year, a lot, almost all the time. He was again Thursday evening the guest of France 2. The opportunity to demand great firmness to guarantee respect for secularism at school, to display his intransigence in the face of the 500 students who disrupted this week’s tributes to Samuel Paty and Dominique Bernard, or to commit to protecting teachers “every day”.

Incidentally, Gabriel Attal indicated that a “flash survey” would look into the security of educational establishments in the coming days. One more announcement. Since the ban on wearing the abaya in schools, which was at the end of August, on the eve of the start of the school year, the minister has not stopped. It appears everywhere and multiplies initiatives. It’s very simple, a sign of the times, he communicates so much that one would say… A Minister of the Interior. Basically Gabriel Attal is doing Sarkozy… Or Darmanin.

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An omnipresence that pays off in the polls

Gabriel Attal’s rating is skyrocketing in the polls and within the majority. For the school, it’s way too early to tell. What is certain is that it will take much more than words and images to tackle the decline in educational levels, remedy the vocations crisis and restore confidence in teachers. In short, to break with this public impotence which Gabriel Attal himself echoed Thursday evening, on France 2. The minister reported the story “chilling” made to him by teachers at the Arras high school. Since the assassination of Samuel Paty three years ago, some have feared that one of them would one day be killed by the young terrorist who took action last Friday. They had multiplied the reports, to no avail. Alerted, neither National Education, nor the police, nor the courts were able to prevent the assassination of a teacher.