“Today we have a school for children. I am in favor of creating a school for parents. In the aftermath of the urban violence that set France ablaze, the proposal of the socialist deputy Philippe Brun wants to be a middle position between “the speech of stigmatization of the executive” and the hostility of the Insoumis to appropriate the theme of parental responsibility. .
Favorable to the creation of “a place of listening, reception, and compulsory training for parents in difficulty”, the elected representative of Eure intends to stand out from the call for responsibility launched by Emmanuel Macron to the families of rioters, whom he had threatened with financial penalties.
For him, “there are many parents who work late at night (…). I am thinking of all the workers in industry, logistics, the hospital, people who work hard and who are not necessarily there in the evening to make sure that their children do not go out, “he said. he explained to the microphone of BFMTV. Rejecting all fatalism, the socialist advocates the involvement of “the community, which must help parents in difficulty”.
To those who accuse him of walking on the flowerbeds of macronie by evoking parental responsibility, Philippe Brun retorts that a “school for parents” is “completely socialist”. “Parents are certainly responsible, but for them to be fully responsible, they have to be given the means. You are not born a parent, you become one,” he says.
If the idea of a school for parents seems new, it is not. An initiative in this direction was already created in 2009 by Éric Ciotti, the current boss of the Republicans. The then UMP president of the Alpes-Maritimes general council had embarked on a crusade against school absenteeism. Faced with the powerlessness of parents to drive middle school and high school students daily on the way to school, he suggested that families of absent children sign a “parental responsibility contract” and take courses given by the “parents’ school “. Psychologists, nurses and principals guided the adults so that they could recover their parental authority that had been undermined. Éric Ciotti had already decided to suspend the family allowances of parents whose children were not returning to school.
Taking up the subject on a national scale, the “Ciotti law” had also been voted in 2010 before being repealed in 2013 under the presidency of François Hollande. During its implementation, between February 2011 and March 2012, only 472 families saw their allowances suspended.
Philippe Brun does not want the same device: “The suspension of family allowances is presented as a magic solution but it is not effective.” The PS deputy rather claims Ségolène Royal: “The real solution is to support parenthood. This is what Ségolène Royal proposed in 2006 with mandatory parenting support courses.
But the PS candidate in the 2007 presidential election also proposed “systems for the guardianship of family allowances”.