The murder of Professor Dominique Bernard has recently coincided with the third anniversary of the beheading of Professor Samuel Paty, so a dilemma emerges in conversations among teachers in France: How can the security of education centers be ensured without turning them into shelters? The debate is at the center of current events in the country, following last week’s attack by a former student on a jihadist spree against an institute in Arras in northern France. Multiplication was also added to this Fake bomb alarms in schools and institutes: There have been more than 300 since the beginning of September.
“Now Reminds me of when Samuel Paty was murdered“, professor Christophe Naudin, one of the survivors of the attack on the Bataclan Hall and who teaches History and Geography at an institute in Arcueil on the southern outskirts of Paris, explains to EL PERIÓDICO of the Prensa Ibérica group. Emmanuel Macron’s government is the first of 2020 As in its sad autumn – when a wave of hostile speeches against France in Muslim countries coincided with a series of small-scale attacks in which four people died in total – Emmanuel Macron’s government reacted to the killing of Professor Bernard by praising Professor Bernard “Full school and knowledge transfer at the heart of fight against reactionism”.
“All centers have had safety protocols in place since 2015” but “we need to go further” so that Schools “remain sacred”, defended Minister of Education Gabriel Attal. Following the attack in Arras, authorities made the following statement: Deployment of 1,000 representatives security in front of training centers (60,000 total). They also increased 3,000 to 7,000 soldiers HE patrol From the French streets. The neighboring country raised its anti-terrorism alert level to maximum.
face recognition
However, education in France is a decentralized authority. Security in classrooms depends on municipal and regional governments, which allocate significant budget items for this. It has been a long time since education centers have ceased to be places open to the street. Conservative Laurent Wauquiez, president of the Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes region (middle-east), whose administration has invested 110 million euros since 2016 to install alarms, video security cameras and other such devices, offered the following proposal: Facial recognition system installation at high school entrances “To identify individuals being monitored for terrorist radicalization.”
This competition among politicians to see who can propose the most effective security measure does not excite educators. They would settle for solving more fundamental problems. “There are doors and alarms that don’t work Marie Hélène Plard, departmental co-secretary of the educational association FSU SNUipp in Seine-Saint-Denis, which is located in the north of the Paris region and has the highest poverty rate, says: It is a metropolitan city in France.
“Incredible requests”
“Last week I saw this Mind-blowing security demands. The administration asked us if we had metal detectors or security cameras… I’m not sure we need all of those,” adds Plard, who works as a principal at a school in Île-Saint-Denis. He is one of the teachers who did not change the way he worked after the Arras attack. It allowed parents to continue picking up their children, which was “something they appreciated.”
“If we begin to transform “Students will not feel comfortable in training centers in castles,” warns Naudin. This week they changed how they operate at their school and started examining students’ backpacks to prevent them from bringing in dangerous objects. The author of ‘Journal d’un rescapé du Bataclan’ adds: “From a security perspective, we must be alert to this spiral for both ethical and economic reasons.” He also criticizes Contrast between “politicians’ big love speeches for teachers” in critical moments and when they don’t feel the reality of the rest of the year”respected neither by management nor society”.
False bomb warnings
Despite education being one of the pillars of the Fifth French Republic, the teaching profession was negatively affected a clear insecurity. In 1980, the salary of a young secondary school teacher was 2.2 times the minimum wage; now it’s only 1.2. “We no longer have the social prestige we used to have. “Young people respect a real estate agent more than a teacher,” adds Naudin, who believes this is another factor that promotes aggression in the classroom. In February, Bernard and Paty, as well as a Spanish teacher, were stabbed to death in the south of France. The cause of the incident was a student with psychological problems.
“Schools are not immune from violence from the rest of society. they are like this a ticking bomb”says Natalia Ruiz, a Spanish teacher at a high school in Saint-Denis. They provide a sounding board for a society as fragmented as French society, where far-right ideas of lepenism often spread and attract public debate, as well as educational issues. The return to school was marked by the ban on the “Abaya”, a traditional tunic that girls and teenagers in Muslim countries can no longer wear since it is ‘rented’.‘. Although the Administration took this measure with the argument of making it easier for teachers, he stated that “many students of Muslim origin feel excluded by this measure.”
Vision of aggressive secularism
“A very aggressive vision of secularism has developed, and with this dynamic they have made us a potential target,” complains trade unionist Plard. The whole debate about the abaya has coincided with a phenomenon that is causing increasing concern: the proliferation of false alarms about bomb attacks on educational grounds. Although they occurred just in time in June, they proliferated this quarter. There were 117 people between early September and October 6On the eve of a new escalation in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. This phenomenon has intensified in recent weeks. Currently this number exceeds 300.
The majority of those arrested due to these false warnings minors, often have great computer skills and widespread motivation. For some, this is a form of vicious competition fueled by the ‘deep web’ (dark web). “At the institute where I worked before,There have been bomb alerts every day for two weeks. and the center is evacuated every morning,” Ruiz explains. Teachers experience this phenomenon with a mixture of resignation and fear. It is a sad atmosphere where it is difficult to create an environment of harmony and respect. And create an ideal space for training.