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Pamphlet about a young high school student sent to pre-trial detention, and another under judicial supervision, suspected of having attacked their high school with firework mortars in revenge against a disciplinary council!

When school sends you to prison...

Friday, November 10, 7:30 a.m. Lyon's Lycée La Martinière Monplaisir opens its doors. It's the start of another ordinary day at the lycée: a day of hard work for the students, punishments, vexatious measures and constant humiliation for the recalcitrant who don't want to fit into the mold promoted by the Republic's school system and its selective sorting of future workers. But this was without counting on a group of recalcitrants, who came to ring in the new school year with repeated blasts of fireworks, and set up a pretty fire of dustbins and scooters at the entrance to the lycée. In an e-mail sent to parents, the school principal even claims to have been personally targeted. This beautiful attack on one of the many barracks of the National Education is said to be a response, a revenge, to the following week's disciplinary meeting of one of the alleged participants (or an attempt to block the school).

Since then, the pupil concerned by the disciplinary board and another high school student have been arrested and charged with, among other things, aggravated violence and damage by dangerous means. Of the two high school students in question, the first, aged 16, has been remanded in custody, while the other, also a minor, has been placed under judicial supervision. They were identified by one of the many cameras that have been sprouting up around and inside high schools for years.

The state and politicos of all stripes, who we know are attached to the so-called school of “equal opportunities”, vaunted as a fair means of social advancement and producer of enlightened and virtuous citizens, have reacted unanimously: “It's the republican school as a whole that's under attack”, “it's the authority of the school, for which I'm fighting, that's being challenged here” declared Attal [current Minister of National Education and Youth] and others, in addition to calling of course for a firm judicial response and increased police patrols around high schools. On Friday November 17, many of the school's teachers were on strike! To demand the release of the student and the abandonment of this disgusting procedure? No, the teachers, those eternally good students, chose to feel targeted as well, and demanded better means to “raise [their] students and give as much as possible a taste for learning” and “put a stop to episodes of violence”, and offered their support to the principal apparently targeted in this attack.

Last [school] year, fearing the explosiveness and determination that high school student movements have often shown, the rectorats, in collaboration with high school and college administrations, tried to organize repression: in Paris and elsewhere, disciplinary councils were held to punish – or at least discourage, since they often failed to obtain sanctions for this reason – those suspected of having repeatedly taken part in organizing and holding “blockades” in these establishments. A few weeks later, the riots that ravaged the country for several days targeted schools, colleges and lycées, much to the dismay of parliamentarians on all sides who defend this practical tool for pacifying and bringing young people into line. Lately, in the wake of the recent tragic events in Arras, but also with the movement and riots of last year in the background, it's anxiety and the all-out security approach that has prevailed in schools, with all pupils considered potential assailants: bags searched, entrances checked, and even in some lycées, bans on hydro-alcoholic gels! Yet it's obvious to anyone interested in subversion and emancipation that the Arras attack had nothing to do with the Lyon mortars, either in means or ends. It's hard not to see in the judicial and political response to the events at the Lycée La Martinière Monplaisir, a translation into action of the State's radically repressive response to last summer's riots and its obsession with the “re-education” of young people who have not embraced the values of the Republic.

Disciplinary boards involve the same mechanisms as those of the bastard justice system, but this time in a process internal to the National Education. You're officially accused of certain misdeeds, you have the right to be assisted and represented (by a lawyer if necessary, but also by any adult) in a session that's supposed to be adversarial (with the added hypocrisy that the school institution is judge and jury, as in all internal justice systems), you have the right to explain yourself, and the parents, on whom the school relies so much to keep the kids in line, are also summoned... and finally, after deliberation, a verdict is reached by the jury, with sentences that mimic conventional justice (community service, probation, etc.). Of course, discussions also focus on the student's personality, general behavior, grades and involvement in the life of the school – individualized justice is the rule!

The disciplinary board is also the paroxysm of what schools do best in terms of forced adaptation to what exists and what represents their main goal today: the taming of pupils. At school, obedience to teachers and educational staff is taught above all, as is respect for rules and regulations, the internal law of the establishment, and a somewhat softened form of deprivation of freedom with compulsory attendance, hours of detention and absurd punishments. We are also taught normalization, conforming to what society wants of us. We're taught to be good citizens who vote, who respect the sacrosanct democracy that insinuates itself into class delegate elections, who keep their mouths shut and bow to hierarchy. Our position in the capitalist system is assimilated gently or by force, reinforced by the sorting of students along the way through forced counseling and specialized classes: you have an academic profile, you're good enough to be a manager, but you on the other hand will probably be a cashier and as for you, you're simply unemployable! The school is the barracks, and it's already the company!

It's clear that the school doesn't want to see protests take root in its offices. It is in our interest, as we seek to destroy the State, its police, its justice system and its schools, which are only good for sorting students and crushing their dreams, to see rise and gro everywhere, and inside the School itself, a radical and offensive subversion against it.

AGAINST TAMING, AGAINST JUSTICE, IN COURT OR AT THE DISCIPLINARY BOARD! FREEDOM FOR THE ASSAILANTS OF THE LYCÉE LA MARTINIERE MONPLAISIR!

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