A teacher in the 15th arrondissement of Paris will soon be summoned by the Île-de-France rectory after hitting a crying three-year-old in class. The scene was filmed by a parent who was present at the time of the incident. The little girl's parents filed a complaint.
The images are brutal and shocking. A teacher has been 'replaced' after she was filmed by a mother hitting a three-year-old girl as she cried in class on Tuesday 3 September. The student's parents filed a complaint. The teacher will be summoned by the rectorate.
It is a first return to school that the little girl – and her parents – will remember, unfortunately, for a long time, reports BFMTVtransmission of information from Parisian. On the second day of school, the young student in the lower section is in a fit of tears when the teacher, exasperated, slaps her on the back. Under the blow, the little girl fell to the ground before getting up but did not stop crying. The teacher then grabs a bottle before splashing the liquid on the child's face.
A mother, present in the room and witnessing the violence, had the presence of mind to film the scene. She then alerts the child's parents, who immediately go to the police station to file a complaint. They say today they are “extremely traumatized”.
The “substitute” teacher in the classroom
Asked by our colleagues from Parisianthe parents' lawyer, Me Vanessa Edberg, is outraged by this act: “It's not a beating. He hit her on the back.”
After the facts were revealed, the teacher was immediately replaced. She will soon be summoned by the rectory “to be informed of the consequences”.
These images are terribly shocking and unacceptable in our School.
I immediately requested that disciplinary proceedings be initiated, with the teacher's immediate suspension.
I send all my support to the victim and his family who are being cared for. https://t.co/5yUT9SgKM7
— Nicole Belloubet (@NBelloubet) September 9, 2024
For her part, the resigned Minister of National Education Nicole Belloubet reacted Xshe denounces “horribly shocking images” and announces that she has “immediately requested the initiation of disciplinary proceedings, with the immediate suspension of the teacher”.