Private school textbooks for a debt of canteen

Private school textbooks for a debt of canteen
September 13, 2011 by lagazettedeputeaux








ARCHIVES. Of college students of Saint-Herblain (Loire-Atlantique) have been deprived of school textbooks to school due to outstanding payments of canteen. | (LP / Manon Hudson)

For a canteen of a EUR 20 unpaid, two college students of Loire-Atlantique could not retrieve their textbooks to the re-entry. A "clumsiness" that regrets academic inspection.

The date of re-entry, Ernest Renan in Saint-Herblain College, a professor and a documentalist distributed textbooks to 520 students, half of whom are fellows.

At least two of them to have been denied. The reason: their parents have not paid the canteen, reported the daily newspaper "France West". "" My 15-year-old son returned saying: MOM, this is the shame of my life, at school everyone received the books, but the prof has taken over to me and a friend, saying: there are things that your parents have not paid "", told AFP a student mother, Agustina Toffano. The amount of its debt: 20,80 EUR. "Four months that I am nailed to the bed with cancer." "I had other cats whipping to think about 20 euros," responds mother of family.

Director of the College Ernest Renan, Philippe Milville acknowledged the facts. "Usually, it engages parents by this means the day of the receipt and the next day, students have their book." "There, clumsiness is that books have not been rendered", he said. Seized by one of the families concerned, Bernard Javaudin Academy Inspector immediately intervened. "There is no link between canteen debt, or even a debt for damaged manuals, and the distribution of the latter", he said, recalling that "school is mandatory, the books are free of charge and shall be distributed to all".

This "clumsiness" occurs after the case of nine students of Thonon-les-Bains (Haute-Savoie) access to the canteen because of the weak revenue of their unemployed parents. Monday, they were invited to lunch by "outraged" shopkeepers, in protest against the decision of the Mayor. The Federation of parents of pupils (CIPF) councils was launched in April a national appeal to stop the denial of access of students to school canteens. They had asked parliamentarians to vote a "law school Restoration Act".

LeParisien.fr