Gabriel Attal promises the establishment of “pedagogical support units” to help teachers facing “resistance”

These cells will be available “for teachers who express the wish or who indicate the need,” he added.

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Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, in Paris, March 12, 2024. (LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP)

A measure to support teachers. Secularism is “today more than ever threatened” at school, said Gabriel Attal on Wednesday March 13 in an interview with AFP. The Prime Minister therefore promised the establishment of “pedagogical support cells” to help teachers faced with “resistance, even protests” of their teachings. These cells will be available “for teachers who express the wish or who express the need”he added.

“Accepting that a teacher is afraid to teach is a defeat for the Republic.”

Gabriel Attal, Prime Minister

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The Prime Minister wants the rectorates to be able to propose “three big solutions” to teachers: “pedagogical support with reference teachers who can give them advice on tackling certain sequences of the program, a physical presence of non-teaching staff within the class, or the physical presence of trained staff, for example part of academic teams ‘values ​​of the Republic'”.

“Secularism (…) has its enemies, they are political, religious. But it also has its defenders: our teachers, our civil servants, our law enforcement”also declared the Prime Minister, two days before the 20th anniversary of the 2004 law against the wearing of ostentatious religious outfits or symbols at school.


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