Kudos to Samuel Paty and Dominique Bernard. “Never again!” A moment of silence in tribute to the two teachers who were victims of terrorists

This Monday, October 14, in Occitanie as in all middle and high schools in France, a tribute was organized for the two teachers murdered in 2020 and 2023. A moment of silence for Samuel Paty and Dominique Bernard, victims of Islamic terrorism.

They should not have died in these circumstances. It is sad. Teachers are doing their job and should not be afraid to teach.

Lilou, a student at Ada Lovelace College in Nîmes

They were decapitated and stabbed because they were professors in the Republic. This Monday, October 14, ceremonies in tribute to Samuel Paty and Dominique Bernard were organized in all middle and high schools in France. At the Ada Lovelace college in Nîmes, students take civics and citizenship courses throughout the year. The Director of the institution still wanted to make a speech to remember the importance of this obedience and to denounce any terrorist ideology that advocates violence.

It was important to re-contextualize, to make sense so that our students would understand why the teachers were murdered. The school exists to spread knowledge. It is important for them, for their future and for nation building.

Sophie Calley, Director of Ada Lovelace College in Nîmes

In Montpellier, the ceremony brought together more than a hundred people in front of the legislature who attended a powerful speech from the rector of the academy, Sophie Béjéan.

You must be firm in your message. This was the case last year with the ban on the abaya. The Minister of National Education had clearly indicated the ban. It has been applied and we can see the effect of this message of stability because at the beginning of the school year, attacks on secularism, of various natures, have decreased.

Sophie Béjéan, Rector of the Academy of Montpellier

More than a hundred and forty years after the Ferry laws, the use of the principle of theology is stronger than ever at the heart of the debates with, for example, the training of 100% of National Education staff in secularism. Ministerial ambition for four years now.

The Montpellier academy is particularly committed to this training effort. We train 12,000 people every year. And we are going with our 110 secular trainers in every school, in every institution to make everyone involved in the school think about what is a secular principle and what is not. good.

Thierry Duclerc, Director of Education responsible for the “Values ​​Center” of the Rectory

Therefore a unique training plan in the values ​​of the Republic and secularism was launched at the national level and is still being used. This made it possible to train a total of 300,000 teachers. Four years after the murder of Samuel Paty by Islamic terrorism and a year later Dominique Bernard, a way to show that the school has not forgotten the sacrifice of the two teachers.