Nearly half of the “letters of disapproval” sent by the Versailles rectorate to parents “raise questions”, according to Gabriel Attal

The Versailles rectorate sent 120 letters last year “said of disapproval” to families, including 55 “seem to raise questions”indicated, Monday, September 25, the Minister of Education, Gabriel Attal, during a press briefing following a meeting with the rector. “Obviously, work will continue to identify what led to the sending of these letters, and whether it was justified to send them or not”he explained after a meeting with Etienne Champion, the rector of the Versailles academy, in office since July 2023.

This meeting followed the revelation of a letter with a threatening tone, sent by the rectorate to the parents of Nicolas, a teenager who subsequently committed suicide in Poissy, in Yvelines, after being the victim of school harment.

In an interview published Saturday September 23 by The ParisianCharline Avenel, the former rector of Versailles, presented “an apology to the parents of Nicholas »15 years old, who committed suicide at the start of the school yearin her name and in the name of the institution she headed at the time of the facts, and described a letter they received as“inadmissible”. She claims that she had no “not aware” controversial letter sent by the rectorate to the teenager’s parents who denounced acts of harment against him.

“I regret not having been aware of these letters and not having been able to ensure that the distress of the families was taken into account”, declares the former rector in the columns of the daily. She was at the time ” on leave “as well as his deputy, but ures that ” this has nothing to do with “ with this lack of information. “I was devastated to learn of the death of this student. When I discovered the existence of this letter in the press a week ago, I was devastated.”she declares.

In the interview, she explains that she also did not know that a letter of the same ilk had also been sent to a family who reported at the beginning of the year a ault on their little girl by an after-school leader in Andrésy, in Yvelines. . “I validated the principle of letters addressed to families which threaten teachers”letters called “comminatory” to which national education personnel may have access to recall legal provisions.