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2mo ago

Teachers Walk Out After Principal’s Home at Angoulême College Is Vandalized

Educators stopped working in protest of an attack on their principal’s home that underscores growing threats to school staff.

Des enseignants ont exercé leur droit de retrait lundi 16 juin 2025, après que le logement de la principale de leur collège a été vandalisé à Angoulême. Une semaine auparavant, des professeurs du lycée Marguerite Dumas à Angoulême manifestaient après des tirs de mortier lancés par des élèves.
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Overview

  • On the night of June 14–15, bottles were thrown through the windows of the principal’s residence at Collège Pierre Bodet in Angoulême, and a formal complaint was filed by the rectorat.
  • The principal notified colleagues that she felt unsafe and incapable of coming to work following the latest attack on her home.
  • Staff at the college exercised their right of withdrawal on Monday, June 16, pausing lessons to demonstrate solidarity and protest the violence.
  • At midday the personnel met with Thierry Claverie, departmental director of national education services, who assured them of his full support.
  • This incident adds to a pattern of harassment against the principal—including graffiti insults and car damage—and coincides with rising violence in Angoulême schools after a recent mortar fire at a local high school.