Amélie Oudéa-Castéra “regrets” having been able to “hurt certain teachers” in the public with her comments about school

La nouvelle ministre de l'Education nationale et des sports a fait polémique après avoir justifié la scolarisation de ses enfants dans le privé. MAXPPP – Vincent Isore

Just appointed Minister of National Education, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra defended the choice of sending her children to private education, provoking controversy. Words that she says she “regrets” this Saturday, January 13. 

Criticized over the schooling of her children in a private Catholic establishment in Paris, the Minister of National Education and Sports Amélie Oudéa-Castéra assures this Saturday 13 January "regret" to have been able to injure certain public education teachers.

She says she will always be at his side. of "the public school and its teachers", reports France Bleu d' after a statement sent to AFP.

Hardly appointed to her new position in Education in addition to her role as Minister of Sports, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra caused controversy this Friday, January 13.

A controversial establishment

On the sidelines of a trip to a college in Yvelines, she justified her choice to enroll her children in the private sector by her "frustration" in front of "the packets of hours which were not seriously replaced" in the public establishment where they were previously educated.

Remarks which did not fail to arouse the anger of the education unions and provoke controversy. The choice of the establishment in question for the schooling of his three children also aroused criticism. 

According to the revelations of Mediapart the establishment in question had done the ;rsquo;subject of an administrative investigation by his own ministry, following possible sexist, homophobic and authoritarian abuses.