Wise, Imen listens to the teacher’s instructions, with increased attention. “It feels good to find a class”, smiles the teenager, who participated this Wednesday in a course organized by the municipality of Bagneux for the “school-less” of the town, to use the name of the collective created by parents. .
A week after the start of the school year, the 14-year-old girl, who should have entered second, still has no assignment in a high school. Like her, this year, hundreds of students, future college or high school students, found themselves on the floor on the day of the start of the school year in Ile-de-France, especially in Hauts-de-Seine.
Marie-Hélène Amiable, mayor (PCF) of Bagneux since 2004, assures us that “she has never seen that” since she took up her seat. Because, in Bagneux, 21 students were still without assignment on Monday.
“We had to do something”
Enough to encourage the town hall to organize this outdoor course for these children. On the program: methodology and memory work. “I gave you six complicated words ten minutes ago. Do you remember that? ” asks Olivier Barberousse. This history-geography teacher at the Maurice-Genevoix high school volunteered for this first day of improvised lessons.
“Something had to be done,” observes the one who is also a municipal councilor. It’s worth reassuring families and young people. ” This Wednesday, six students took his course. “At home, I’ve been lost for a week,” says Imen. I try to ask friends for lessons, who have had their start, but it’s difficult. ”
About fifteen students have found an establishment
Nour, 14, “looks at the programs on the Internet”, consults the language dictionary, links the lessons of last year. “But I’m afraid to be late,” blows the teenager, who is also waiting for an answer for a high school. Her mother, sitting a few feet away, watches her out of the corner of her eye. “I call the academy morning, noon and night. Yesterday I cried about it. I don’t know what to do anymore, ”says the mother.
The municipality, which discussed this Wednesday with the academic direction of Hauts-de-Seine and the FCPE, is reassuring. “Several children were affected on Tuesday, rejoices Marie-Hélène Amiable. We only have six left, this (Wednesday) evening, which do not yet have an establishment. It is in the process of being absorbed. ”
But the chosen one is already anticipating the start of the 2021 school year. “The situation will be more and more tense each new school year”, imagines Marie-Hélène Amiable. In a few years, a high school should be built in the town on the site of Mathurins, where the course was symbolically held on Wednesday.
