“The problem is not this school but that not all students have the chance to have access to excellence”, believes LR MEP François-Xavier Bellamy

A report from the General Inspectorate of National Education, dated July 2023, denounces “abnormalities” in this establishment.

“The problem is not Stanislas, but that not all students have the chance to have access to excellence”estimates the head of the Republican list in the next European elections, François-Xavier Bellamy, guest of franceinfo, defends the private Catholic school Stanislas which is accused of homophobic and sexist excesses in an inspection report from the National education made public by Mediapart.

For François-Xavier Bellamy, the National Education inspection report commissioned in February 2023 by the ministry after the publication of articles in the press highlighting abuses within Stanislas, is “an incriminating report”. According to him, “it was made for that. It was launched by Minister Pap Ndiaye to be able to weaken Stanislas. I read this report. I found it very surprising because of the fact that he systematically seeks out students whose testimony can be negative about the establishment. There are not very many of them, but at no time does he talk about all the students and as a result, there are many who are happy to live in this establishment.” Criticisms and press articles are the work of “crusaders of the war against Stanislas”.

“Today, if in this country, the main danger for republican unity was the Stanislas high school, I believe that France would not be doing too badly.”

François-Xavier Bellamy, LR MEP

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The teacher in the public and in the private puts forward the one who has been, and who has not “seen at no time in [s]we work as a teacher” of “threat to republican unity in private contract education” that he had the opportunity to meet. And by the way, “if it was really that disastrous, if it was such a terrifying place”there wouldn’t be as many parents “who are not Catholic” who would seek to do “register their children with Stanislas“.

François-Xavier Bellamy believes that behind the controversy, Stanislas is being blamed “to have become a symbol of an excellence which is – and that is disastrous – reserved for a form of social elite”. There “real question”he continues, “it’s how to ensure that all students, wherever they come from, have access to this excellence”.

Emmanuel Macron’s latest announcements, Tuesday evening at a press conference, are out of the question. “reality”according to the LR candidate in the European elections. “The compulsory theater classes are very good”he explains, “but our problem is to teach our students to read, to teach them to count, to transmit to them the most fundamental knowledge.. And this includes, among the first measures to be taken, by “better train teachers, better support teachers, better pay teachers to make the profession more attractive”.