The fear of parents and the silence of the town hall of Lyon were therefore heralds of a closure of the Lévi-Strauss school.
The atypical establishment of the 1st arrondissement, located rue Paul Chenavard, will end the 2020-2021 school year and will not reopen next September. The announcement was made official this Thursday evening at the close of the city council.
At the repeated request of Jean-Michel Duvernois, elected from the 6th, Grégory Doucet was indeed obliged to respond. Or rather to let her assistant in Education Stéphanie Léger confirm the closure of the Lévi-Strauss school. To justify it, she recalled that the workforce in the 1st sector (Lévi-Strauss, Doisneau, Lamartine and Michel-Servet) had decreased by more than 20% between 2010 and 2020. As a result, the National Education was considering closing from 3 to 6 classes for the next school year. The enrollment forecasts at the Lévi-Strauss school led the City to think that only one class would have remained with a single teacher-director in 2021-2022. The solution proposed by the parents of students to modify the school perimeter dated 2019 would have had according to Stéphanie Léger “little impact on the next school year at Lévi-Strauss school. Conversely, this change in the scope will ultimately impact neighboring school groups”.
The City would have made several proposals to the National Education, such as the merger of Lévi-Strauss with Doisneau or the transformation of Lévi-Strauss into an inclusive school. All leads were rejected.
This is a new point of tension in the majority of Grégory Doucet. The former mayor of the 1st arrondissement, Nathalie Perrin-Gilbert, now Culture Deputy, has always insisted on his desire to see the school remain open. Elected officials from his group Lyon en Commun were quick to react. In a joint press release, Alexandre Chevalier and David Souvestre denounced this decision. They see a “bad signal for the inhabitants of the district. It means that a public school service is not essential; that families are not a priority and that children are considered as adjustment variables“. “This closure will contribute a little more to the social deterioration of the neighborhood, which we refuse”, conclude the two elected officials close to NPG.
Grégory Doucet concluded his assistant’s speech by specifying that a meeting will be offered to parents of students from Lévi-Strauss school. The mayor, the education assistant as well as the new mayor of the 1st district, Yasmine Bouagga, would participate.
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