Supervisor killed in Nogent: Communists in the Lyon metropolitan area want to "evaluate" the situation in schools

Tuesday, June 10. Mélanie G., a childcare worker, was stabbed by a 14-year-old middle school student in front of the Françoise-Dolto school in Nogent (Haute-Marne). In a press release issued Friday, June 13, the Communist group of the Lyon Metropolitan Area called for the protection of public services and requested a metropolitan meeting to "assess" the situation in the region's schools.

"While school should be a place of emancipation, protected from violence and where students and staff can work, learn, grow and flourish in complete safety, an educational assistant lost her life there. How can we prevent and prevent such tragedies from occurring in our schools, middle schools and high schools?" the group asks. In its view, "it is society as a whole, from war to videos and social networks, which promote violence, and the weakening of public health, particularly psychiatric health, which weakens our collective responses. But they concern, of course, schools and, for us, require a sufficient human presence of adults supported by the National Education system as well as the strengthening of public services working with young people in all aspects of life."

The metropolitan councilors added: "Educational assistants, who are in direct and constant contact with children, are essential, yet they are precarious and suffer from degraded working conditions - up to one adult for more than 150 students. They are not security guards, but educators who, through their actions, educate citizens. They need to be more numerous, better trained, and better recognized."

Mental health must also be a priority. "The abandonment of school health, child and adult psychiatry, the weakening of social services, the organized destruction of all our public services and the drying up of local authority budgets, it is in these bottomless renunciations that society and consciences are disintegrating," they always write. The State and local authorities therefore have "the responsibility to put everything on the table to understand and act effectively, so as not to let fear take hold. Students and staff must be able to work, learn and grow in safety."

The communist group finally calls for the organization of a metropolitan meeting "to assess the situation and imagine local actions to be developed with all stakeholders."