Protective grids: near Toulouse, parents of students likening a school to a prison
To fight against incivility and litter linked to gatherings of young people, the city of Ramonville-Saint-Agne installed protective grids around a nursery school during the summer. They will be vegetated or embellished. In the meantime, they left no one indifferent on the day of the new school year.
The residents of the elementary school Pierre-Mendès France, in Ramonville Saint-Agne, remember it. The nuisances due to the recurring squat under the elementary school porch have long disrupted its proper functioning. A grid prohibiting access solved the problem. The town hall considers that the same solution can be applied to the nursery school, which, in recent weeks, has suffered in turn from the nuisance of a frequent squat of young people. “The consequences of these gatherings are often litter, papers, cans, bottles…. It was impossible to leave things like this. Especially since there is a gas supply nearby. It had to be preserved. Many parents of students were applicants ”indicates the town hall of Ramonville.
“A prison kindergarten”
For some parents, on the other hand, the new provisions of the town hall of Ramonville to prevent young people from squatting in front of the nursery school are rather reminiscent of a “Welcome the pitchounes in the first section of prison kindergarten” For others, the solution applied , a proven solution a few meters away, is welcome. The latter concede well “the massive side” but recall that these grids have just been installed and that there are many means of embellishing and softening their landscape integration. We had to let the start of the school year pass, here is the choice made. On the side of the school management, the person in charge of the establishment did not react.
The grids will be vegetated or decorated
For the town hall, it was necessary “to act quickly and this, during the summer, because it would have been difficult to carry out work after the start of the school year”. The town hall recalls that “the grids are there to resolve a situation on which it has been asked” to find a solution. The town hall specifies that it has already carried out a reflection on the integration of the process. Vegetation, a graphic art project… A reflection produced from the genesis of the project. The start of the school year has taken place, the town hall will be able to mobilize the educational communities around the project…