the Minister of National Education believes that for some she is the “symbol of a caste” to be “demolished”

She has been in a storm since her appointment on January 11. The Minister of National Education and Sports, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, estimated Tuesday January 30 that “even within Parliament we would like to do [d’elle] the symbol of a privileged caste to be fought, to be destroyed.” The minister finds herself at the center of a controversy over the education of her children in the Parisian private school Stanislas and as well as her declarations on the Littré public school and its “packets of hours not seriously replaced”.

An outing which triggered the ire of several teaching unions and a defense of the minister undermined shortly after by the daily Release who published several testimonies denying this version. “In recent days I have evoked in an awkward way, an erroneous memory of my mother from 15 years ago. I have hurt people who for nothing in the world I wanted to hurt. Mea culpa”did she say during the greetings ceremony of the French Olympic committee.

“I’m telling you this evening, I’m not sure I’ll be able to forgive myself for this mistake one day. It’s a bruise for me, contrary to many of the labels that many people want to stick to me. on the shoulders”, she added. “What I discovered about the clumsy, erroneous, faulty evocation of a memory”, is that’“it can burst forth a torrent that splashes everything, even the most intimate choices”she continued in a long defense monologue.