SOS Education, a type 1901 association created in 2001 with the aim of working on educational reform, has managed to get three local deputies: Michรจle Tabarot, Lionnel Luca, and Jรฉrรดme Riviรจre to intervene and condemn an educational action involving around a thousand students in the city of Grasse.
This initiative, led by educators from the local Leisure Education Culture center, consists, according to SOS Education, of “teaching children how to organize demonstrations.” The LEC, on their part, defends themselves from any political involvement by clarifying that this action is designed to “make children think about their wishes for a better world and then to write them on small banners and signs.”
“No to war,” “Do not kill animals,” “More candies,” or “I love my dad” were the slogans created for an exhibition named “demonstration exhibition,” which is to be held on April 4th in one of the Grasse schools.
The Deputies criticize it as “a learning of claiming at school,” lamenting “that the school time devoted to civic education is solely used for claim purposes and that during a period of demonstrations against the CPE, this appears as a strange coincidence.”
SOS Education also announced its intention to distribute 50,000 postcards titled “No to the learning of claiming in primary schools.”
Meanwhile, the director of LEC, Mrs. Facchinetti expressed being “scandalized by the demonization” of a project that started in September 2005 to invite children to “work on the representation of their body and face.”
So, training future demonstrators or a school project for a better world?
There is no doubt that the Academic Inspector of Alpes Maritimes, Mr. Bernard Maccario, and the Rector of Nice, Mr. Jean-Claude Hardouin will have to decide.
Two articles concerning this subject:
– SOS Education
– Bella Ciao
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