This Friday, April 14, the Jean-Baylet high school had the pleasure of receiving the president of the federal section André-Maginot of Tarn-et-Garonne Mr. Gongora, his future successor Mr. Lherbier and the standard bearer L. Fillastre. They presented the establishment with a check, the amount of which will contribute to the financing of the project led by two high school history and geography teachers, Mrs. Budde and Mr. Penatti with a group of 18 students, on a project dedicated to the future Memorial Museum of Terrorism, MMT.
This museum will open in 2027 in Suresnes near Mont Valérien in the premises of the former outdoor school. Upstream, a digital collaborative experience action “Dealing with terrorism” has been initiated since the start of the 2021 school year with three different academies each school year. This has already resulted in collective creations from colleges and high schools arranged in a digital exhibition already accessible on the MMT website. This school year, the academy of Toulouse was approached and these two teachers from the Jean-Baylet high school presented a project with the first class group of the History, Geography, Geopolitics and Political Sciences specialization on the following theme: the the media’s view of the acts of terrorism that struck France (20th and 21st centuries) by emphasizing research on the attacks in Toulouse and Montauban in 2012. The students’ reflection will also focus on the fragility of social ties in a democracy terrorism proof.
The work of restitution would be a graphic production, which will be exhibited “digitally”. In addition to this research work, the students exchanged with historians, a magistrate, a sociologist, a police commander, a relative of a victim of the attacks.
The Ministry of the Armed Forces and Souvenir Français also supported this memorial project. Its culmination is the trip to Paris next week for students and their teachers to visit Mont Valérien, the site of the future MMT and the Shoah Memorial.
