Toulouse: the galley of an autistic high school student registered on the Parcoursup post-baccalaureate platform
Paul, a student from the Stéphane-Hessel high school in Toulouse, suffering from autistic disorders, who is taking the baccalaureate this year, continues in BTS in the same establishment, but Parcoursup has decided otherwise.
The algorithm of the Parcoursup post-baccalaureate platform does not always take into account the aspirations of all future candidates for higher education. Some are not housed in the same boat.
This is particularly the case of Paul, a final year student at the Stéphane-Hessel high school in Toulouse, suffering from autistic disorders, who continued his higher education in BTS in the same establishment. For medical and convenience reasons, he had formulated his wishes on Parcoursup, targeting his high school and a two-year training course, a BTS in visual communication.
Except that Parcoursup has decided otherwise. On the platform, the high school student finds himself on the waiting list with a similar proposal but in Besançon (Doubs). Paul’s mother, Céline Girod, is saddened by an inextricable situation.
A possibility to request a reconsideration
“I naively believed that when you studied in a high school, you could then continue your higher education in the same establishment. In fact it does not work like that, explains the mother of the high school student. I wonder about the process of inclusion that is made up to the baccalaureate. If it stops so suddenly, can we claim that it is only window dressing, a masquerade of good conscience? This puzzles me. »
However, the Toulouse Academy does not close the options available to the student, whose disability is recognized. The academic information and orientation service (SAIO) recalls in a letter that “given the exceptional circumstances which justify registration in a specific geographical area”, the candidate has the “possibility of requesting the re-examination of his candidacy with academic authority.