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4mo ago

Rennes Preschool Closes for Strike as Staff Rally After Death Threats to Director

The case tests the rule that parents cannot choose a teacher's sex in public schools.

Entre 150 et 200 personnes étaient rassemblées ce vendredi matin devant l'école maternelle des Clôteaux, à Rennes, dont le directeur a été menacé de mort en octobre.
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Des écoliers dans une école primaire. (Illustration)
Rennes : l'indignation après des menaces de mort proférées contre un enseignant de maternelle

Overview

  • About 150 teachers, parents and union members gathered outside the Clôteaux nursery in Rennes as the school closed for a one-day strike.
  • The director-teacher filed a death-threat complaint on October 14 over an October 10 altercation, and the rectorat also lodged a complaint and reported the case to prosecutors.
  • The family demanded their daughter be taught only by women and objected to a male teacher accompanying her to the toilets, according to union accounts.
  • Education Minister Édouard Geffray condemned the threats, said the dispute is not religious, and reiterated that parents cannot pick staff.
  • Staff say trust with the family is broken, they seek the child’s transfer, and mediation is planned as the teacher remains on sick leave under protection.