The IGESR is accused of having watered down the document, to withdraw or mitigate accusations of homophobia, racism or sexism.
Published the 05/05/2025 16:58 Reading time: 2min
The general Inspectorate of Education (IGESR), accused of having watered down a report on the Parisian private establishment Stanislas, assured that he had “Modified the document after its collegial validation”in a statement received by AFP Monday May 5. “The report transmitted to the ministerial authority corresponds to the version validated by all the inspectors general commissioned, after rereading”said the service.
A week earlier, the parliamentary commission of inquiry into violence in educational establishments had announced that it would audition the Inspectors of National Education who had conducted an investigation in Paris college Stanislas in 2023. The commission received a letter from an inspector who carried out these checks, which suggests that the Igesr report had been “Worded in relation to the testimonies collected during this inspection, and especially around (…) of the rather homophobic and racist climate of the establishment”. She has since received a new letter from a second inspector, which is also now retired.
In its declaration sent to AFP on Monday, the IGESR evokes the “Transmission mail” Accompanying the report, at the heart of speculation on a voluntary edulcoration by senior officials of National Education of the facts noted in Stanislas. “Written under the responsibility of the head of service and [ayant] for the sole purpose of presenting a summary of the conclusions “the mail has no “Legal value”highlighted the inspection.
“The general inspectors have heard a hundred witnesses, they did not spot systemic homophobia”said the now number 2 of the Ministry of National Education, Caroline Pascal. The ex-chief of the Igesr, author of this “Transmission mail”had been heard at the end of March before the commission of inquiry.
An ex-Lycean, who claims to have been a victim of discrimination during her expulsion from Stanislas in 2022, filed a complaint for false Friday, following the report’s conclusions, learned France 3 Paris Ile-de-France to his lawyer. According to this complaint, these “modified conclusions” ont “questioned“of the girl and have”at least slowed down the manifestation of the truth“On the facts denounced.
