Before being a writer and winning the Interallié Prize in 2020 with An unimportant crime (Threshold), Irène Frain was a professor of classical letters in high school, then Latin at the Sorbonne in Paris. She was also shocked by the assassination of Samuel Paty, a history and geography teacher, on October 16 in Yvelines. But, from his point of view, working conditions in schools had deteriorated for a while. “The behavior of incivility and violence towards teachers began in the 1980s,” she remembers on the set at 11 p.m. Wednesday December 9.
In order to pay homage to Samuel Paty, 40 personalities gathered to testify to their past on the benches of the school in Letter to this teacher who changed my life – Teaching freedom (Robert Laffont). Irene Frain remembered a teacher who particularly marked her. “A teacher can determine a whole life, she asserts. This is all that makes the greatness, the nobility of the profession and that is why we owe it respect. “
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