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Knife threat in a college in Rennes: “the repetition of the facts and their regularity concerns the teaching community”, according to Carole Zerbib, principal and member of SNPDEN
Knife threat in a college in Rennes: “the repetition of the facts and their regularity concerns the teaching community”, according to Carole Zerbib, principal and member of SNPDEN – (franceinfo)
After the stabbing of a teacher in Rennes by a 12-year-old student, Carole Zerbib, principal of the Voltaire high school in Paris and member of SNPDEN-UNSA, and Jérôme Fourquet, political scientist and director of the Opinion department at Ifop, take stock of the feeling of insecurity among the teaching profession.
The 12-year-old student who threatened his English teacher in Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine) with a knife on Wednesday December 13 was already known to have behavioral problems, but said he wanted to do the same as in Arras. . “This is what is worrying and which concerns the entire teaching community, it is the repetition of facts and their regularity. [L’assassinat de Dominique Bernard à Arras] happened not so long ago and we find ourselves again with a student who arrives armed in a school to attack her teacher”deplores Carole Zerbib, principal of the Voltaire high school in Paris and member of SNPDEN-UNSA, on the set of 12/13 info.
She also regrets that subjects become “difficult to approach”such as the theory of evolution, sexuality or certain historical facts. “There are parents who do not understand what the Republic school is. (…) I think that by explaining, by educating, we can manage to make things understood, otherwise we change professions”she declares.
45% of secondary school teachers have changed the way they teach
Also present on the 12/13 info set, political scientist Jérôme Fourquet, director of the Opinion department at Ifop, indicates that he “we must distinguish between this case, which is a psychiatric case, and attacks on secularism”. An Ifop survey from spring 2023 revealed that “45% of secondary school teachers had changed their way of teaching after the assassination of Samuel Paty, and more than 60% for REP+ teachers.” If the Rennes affair is different from that of Issou (Yvelines), where three students are targeted by disciplinary measures after refusing to see a painting of five naked muses, it “is part of a climate of rising tension and concern on the part of teachers”according to the expert.
