A history professor Nancy Jewish was suspended four months of office for having breached its obligations" of neutrality and secularism "in his teaching and school trips in former concentration camps, his lawyer said Tuesday.
Pederzoli Catherine, 58, used to organize trips to Poland and the Czech Republic over the past fifteen years with classes of second, first and final public high school Loritz Nancy Henry, told AFP his lawyer, Christine Tadic.
"Since the arrival of a new direction of the establishment 2007, someone strives against it, we want to get rid of it, "said the lawyer.
" The fault that the teacher has committed is she not be Jewish? "asked me Tadic, who has seized on Tuesday referred the tribunal to suspend the decision of the rector. The court should rule within 15 days. Ms.
Pederzoli was the subject of an investigation by the General Inspectorate of Education following a protest organized by some of her students in December, Nancy, during a visit of the Minister of National Education , Luc Chatel. The students were protesting against
decision to halve the number of students participating in the next trip. The professor had been suspected of having organized the event and handled his students.
In a statement released Tuesday evening, the Rector of the Academy of Nancy-Metz noted he had requested an investigation into the teacher after a "number of failures" in his school. The Rector
"insists that it is a folder within the general problem of organizing school trips (...), unrelated on the transmission of history and memory of the Holocaust, which the National Education is very attached. "
The teacher says the administation is the subject of a "measure of ellipses (...) at the end add- instruction, "but this" should not be confused with punishment. "In addition, the teacher continues to be paid during his suspension.
The decision was taken" based on the pre-report "from the inspectorate Generally, says the rector.
In this report written in July, and which AFP has been copied, the inspectors point of "breach of duty of reserve, neutrality and secularism", and accuse the teacher of "instrumentalization of students" by "brainwashing".
Inspectors also believe that Ms. Pederzoli spends too much time organizing trips on history Jews in central Europe, including visits to camps like Auschwitz-Birkenau, in what is now Poland.
"A substantial time for preparation being spent on the project, portions of the program it may be more or less sacrificed" , "they wrote in their report.
The authors further note that during their meeting with the professor, the latter gave 14 times the word "Shoah", "while the term both more neutral and legally justified + genocide + n '(was) mentioned only twice, in passing, "they write.
"This teacher was Christian we could not have said it was the brainwashing, "says his lawyer.
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