We are a group of parents of students of the elementary school of French Cul de Sac, and we want to respond to the "coup d'état" orchestrated by parents from metropolitan France of this school.
Approximately 90% of the public of this school is originally from metropolitan France, students, parents and teachers.
The past has shown that Antillean school principals are not welcomed, they were forced out by numerous petitions. Antillean teachers are also reluctant to work in the school because most parents have the reputation of being unbearable, especially with blacks.
Since last September the new principal is a native of Saint-Martin, she is working very hard to ensure that laws are respected while directing the school with an iron fist, especially enforcing compliance with Act No. 2008-496 of 27 May 2008 which makes various provisions in the field of the fight against direct or indirect discrimination. The word of the day now uttered is " She must go."
In the proximity of Oasis restaurant in Oyster Pond, parents from metropolitan France got together and said that the school's principal should absolutely leave because she enrolls too many black children in the school. And some have quickly understood that it will take more than a petition to remove her. Formal meetings were organized by the parents of mainland France. They made sure to exclude almost all parents from Saint Martin to these meetings. A petition to get rid of the principal circulated, they asked almost exclusively metropolitan parents and teachers to sign claiming that since they are the majority , they will not need the support of blacks. Fortunately, they did not reach far with the petition . They also lied by saying that even the Collectivité workers of Saint Martin had problems with the principal. Those statements were strongly condemned and rejected by the Collectivité employees whom have worked in the school for many years.
Strangely, at a time when civil servants, teachers and principal are choosing their post for the coming school year, the principal is accused of hitting students but even more strangely these are not the children of those who are accusing her. How absurd !!!
Last week the gendarmes summoned the children aged 8 to 9 years of the class that the principal also teaches for their investigation in order to send the results to the prosecutor on charges of physical abuse to students. Saint Martin parents, knowing that it was another plot by the French metropolitan parents, asked the gendarmes if they identified any child victims supposedly abused by the principal. To this question the gendarmes answered no, that they had already received half of the class and that the investigation was ongoing. How can the gendarmes summon children for questioning without any parent actually making a complaint that their children have been abused? It is of course those metropolitan parents who complained that the principal apparently hit children and up to this date no victim was identified
At Cul de Sac school , certain metropolitan teachers have longed insulted local children and their parents.
- They have beaten, insulted, mistreated students with the blessings of those who should denounce these acts, the local staff was asked to keep their mouth shut . What happens in the school stays in the school they ordered (last case of abuse was in April 2015 on an child with autism, a complaint was filed).
- Two local staff members were the subject of verbal abuse in December ( complaint sent to the prosecutor) what's next?
- A Collectivité of Saint Martin employee has even been physically assaulted by a Metropolitan Parent
What has happened to those investigations??? Double standards ???
Other complaints can be added to those, all the skeletons should come out of the closet.
The hearings are just beginning.
WE SAY ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, when you choose to live in Saint Martin you should expect to find the ways and customs of Saint Martin people, when you do not like black people avoid going to their country.
Metropolitan parents of Cul de Sac claiming (as they often say at the school gate) that they are the wives of gendarmes, close to the head of staff of the office of the prefét, and friends of the prosecutor, will no longer be allowed to do as they please.
This school is meant for all students of Saint Martin. In this month of celebration of the abolition of slavery and the struggle of our ancestors for our freedom, we denounce racism and this dominance.
After centuries of colonization, we reclaim our past and our traditions as it should be with all our differences. We strongly defend our identity and our culture against this aggression by those parents from metropolitan France which is perceived as oppressive and discriminatory. We therefore support the principal of the school 100% in her quest to promote youth education in Saint Martin and we strongly condemn all racist and unjustified attacks, especially those based on lies.
The Collective of parents of Cul de Sac School.
