Toulouse: Paul, a bachelor with autistic disorders, finally obtained a place after his setbacks on Parcoursup
After his setbacks with Parcoursup, Paul, a Toulouse high school graduate with autistic disorders, finally obtained a place.
This is good news for Paul, a former high school student at Stéphane Hessel high school in Toulouse, who has had autism since birth. The young man who has just had his baccalaureate with honors “quite well” with an overall average of 13.80 finally obtained a place in the BTS communication in the Toulouse high school where he followed all his schooling. This acceptance is the result of an arduous fight against… The algorithm of the Parcoursup platform and the mobilization of his parents. Indeed, when this Toulousain expressed his wishes on the interface, he indicated as a priority that he wanted to follow his higher education in the high school where he attended his schooling. But Parcoursup had initially decided otherwise. The only positive response that this baccalaureate obtained is in a school in Besançon (Doubs). Only downside: the platform did not take into account the fact that Paul will not be 18 until next September and that he is “not autonomous”. His parents therefore moved heaven and earth to obtain a place for Paul in his high school, in particular through the media coverage of his story in the columns of the Dépêche du Midi.
The commission for access to higher education of the rectorate was seized in order to decide the case of Paul (our edition of July 7). And on July 12, the news broke. Paul and another student in the same situation obtained a place within this BTS Study and realization of a communication project at the Stéphane Hessel high school in Toulouse. “Paul’s family had requested this commission under the derogatory ground of disability, indicated the services of the Toulouse academy. The rector of the academy, Mostafa Fourar followed the situation of Paul with attention and benevolence like that of other young people appealing to this academic commission”. This acceptance obviously makes Paul and his parents happy. “Paul is relieved, now it’s up to him to work to gain autonomy and win the next stage of the BTS,” says his mother. The latter would also like to thank all those who worked so that her son could obtain a place in this course in her high school in Toulouse.
Among them, Fatiha Agag-Boudjahlat, a French teacher and essayist in Toulouse who had Paul as a student in 6th and 3rd grades at Maurice Bécanne College. On Twitter, the teacher thanked the rector of the academy for his help in this case.