A choir of teenagers came from Poitiers on Thursday, May 19, to sing before the handover to the Ministry of National Education, at the invitation of Jean-Michel Blanquer, franceinfo learned from a training manager. This choir, made up of around thirty young people, left Poitiers on Thursday morning.
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The singers are accompanied by eight adults, it was necessary to pay the train tickets, taken urgently in the morning Thursday for a cost of around 3,000 euros, tells franceinfo the choir director, who is also an educational inspector. This budget is financed by the rectorate of the Academy of Poitiers.
The singers thought they were performing on the occasion of the transfer of power between Jean-Michel Blanquer and his successor. But the announcement of the reshuffle delayed, they finally leave this Thursday evening in Poitiers. These singers from the academic choir Acad’Ô Chœur had time to visit the Ministry of National Education and then sing for the agents.
This choir is made up of teenagers aged 11 to 15 living throughout the academy of Poitiers, including the departments of Deux-Sèvres, Vienne, Charente-Maritime and Charente. The group was contacted for the first time three weeks ago, by the services of the Ministry of National Education. Jean-Michel Blanquer had heard it several times and obviously appreciated his work.
According to the Ministry of Education contacted by franceinfo, Jean-Michel Blanquer had had the opportunity to meet this choir twice this year, “and had promised to invite them to visit the ministry”. A gesture that Jean-Michel Blanquer has already made “several times in the past, for other musical formations”, specifies the entourage of the minister to franceinfo. This invitation was rushed this Thursday morning with the imminence of a handover, and therefore of a potential change of minister. The group of teenagers and their companions, after having sung for the personnel of the ministry, will not finally sleep in Paris. They return this Thursday evening to Poitiers. It was initially planned that the choristers spend the night in a youth hostel in Saint-Ouen, in Seine-Saint-Denis.