in Ligré, the mobilization for teachers continues

Since the announcement of the measure to move the CM1-CM2 teacher from Ligré, Jean-Paul Boncoeure, to that of Chouzé-sur-Loire, his supporters united within a collective have redoubled their efforts to make hear their anger: leaflets distributed in mailboxes, online petition (signed by 350 people), protest banners hung on the school gates…

This Friday, January 17, 2025, it is in the streets that they chose to make their voices heard. At the end of the day, a small delegation was received by Christian Mendivé, academic director of Indre-et-Loire (Dasen), who came specially to Ligré.

For parents of students, incomprehension remains

For them, there is no question of accepting the decision of the academic management, qualified « d’injustice » et “relentlessly” by its support committee. National Education had justified it, in our columns, as a “temporary measure” intended for “protect the teacher”without giving further details for reasons of confidentiality.

The day before, Jean-Paul Boncoeure's supporters had arranged to meet the residents at the village's rural home. In front of around sixty people, they recalled that a similar situation had occurred in 2017: Jean-Paul Boncoeure, in office since 2006, had been suspended from his duties for his teaching methods “old fashioned”then reinstated in his class, thanks to a court decision.

Expressions of sympathy

What justifies his move to another school today? Those present admitted to having difficulty understanding. Everyone in the audience expressed their sympathy. A mother discusses the case of her son, subject to dysorthography, who judges « important » the calm that reigns in Jean-Paul Boncoeure's class. Another speaks of her daughter, “failing academically at the end of CE2” who has “regained a taste for life, for education” et “loved his year of CM2”.

Other testimonies highlight a climate of suspicion in the village. There was this mother who said that her daughter, when she was in CE2, was “terrorized” to the idea of ​​entering Jean-Paul Boncoeure's class, because of what she heard about him. She finally mourned the departure of her master last Friday. A former student, now an adult, drew a parallel with the story of her grandparents, former teachers in Ligré, who had been “ousted” following “problems with parents”.

At the end of the meeting, Ghislaine Blain, one of the active members of the collective (1) read a message from Jean-Paul Boncoeure (2), addressed to his supporters. Currently on sick leave, the teacher was not able to take up his new position, as planned on Monday. He sought help from his lawyer at the time, Damien Gévaudan, and plans to challenge the National Education decision in court.

(1) She is also elected to the municipal council but said she did not come “in the name of this hat”.

(2) Jean-Paul Boncoeure was absent from the public meeting. As does the mayor of the town, Bernard Thivel. Contacted, the latter did not wish to speak to the NR.