Toulouse: the closure of the Port-Garaud school is definitively recorded by the academic inspection and the town hall
The consternation and sadness, palpable among the parents of students at the Port-Garaud school in Toulouse, who learned that the establishment was closing its doors definitively, after the departmental council for national education, Thursday 23 June. The school described its last fair.
“Each child we teach is a man we win over,” wrote Victor Hugo in 1853 in his poem Written after visiting a prison. Since the final decision fell on the disappearance of the small Port-Garaud nursery school, located rue du Moulin du Château in Toulouse, between the Courthouse and the Carmelites, the parents of students have been living the moment like a dead end. heart.
The closure of this school which has seen generations of Toulousaines and Toulousains pass, opened in 1957, had been recorded, in February, by the departmental council for national education (CDEN). The reason ? Not enough students at the start of the next school year, barely forty for only two classes. The decision is joint between the town hall of Toulouse and the academic inspection of Haute-Garonne.
The smallest school in town
It was the smallest school in Toulouse which, yesterday, revealed the last fair of its existence. The media battle waged this year by the parents of students was not enough to save the Port-Garaud school.
“We have no more hope, confides Mélanie Michot, mother of a child who will have done two years in small and medium section. The priority now is to make a success of our last school party, the fair, to prepare something for the headmistress. Finally, we hope that the town hall of Toulouse will succeed in placing our children in the nearest schools in September, Calas and Fabre. “The student’s mother confides that the closure of the school “was already decided during the technical committee, on June 9, the first groundswell”.
“We fought, but there was a real political will to close the school, adds Mélanie Michot. We close a school for a dozen missing children, but even when we proposed a scenario with a sufficient number of children, we were never told: yes.