accelerate the rehabilitation of the dilapidated building and revitalizing teams

Catherine Kapfer, proviseure at the Lycée Louis-Blériot d'Etampes (Essonne) in 2005, when the aggression against Karen Montet-Toutain, seems right in his boots. Mrs. Kapfer showed Thursday, February 28, before the Assize Court of Essonne, at the trial of Kevani Wansale, who stabbed several times in the open course, his professor of applied art.


Mrs. Kupfer, a former professor of physical education, arrived in the property in September 2004, at his request. She was immediately drawn to its mission: to accelerate the rehabilitation of the dilapidated building and revitalizing teams. She restored the senior adviser for education, failing in its duties. She convinced the rectorship to create new degrees in order to attract new students. "A policy of recruiting students nobody wanted elsewhere," says a report of the Inspector General released in January 2006, one month after the attack. 28% of students entering the school with more than two years late.

Finally, Mrs. Kapfer has addressed the discipline and incidents along school life, in a facility where, according to the same report, had registered a dozen young men known to the police services. "My answer was not exclusion." I wanted to listen to the students, but that some professors criticized me, "she says.

When at the beginning of December 2005, it excludes Kevani Wansale temporarily as a result of an incident a few days earlier with a teacher, she decided, after consultation with the teacher to monitor Kevani, not inform her mother. "Students major have the right to receive their ballots, sign their absences. This was Kevani desired, I observed the law," she explains.

Problem: Mrs. Montet-Toutain, teacher of the main class Kevani, is not warned and a few days later, she asked to meet with Ms. Wansale. "I have not been made aware" of the meeting, took the proviseure. Should we see in this omission to be at the origin of crazy to Kivani, a simple cafouillage or a lack of communication detrimental to the smooth running of the institution?

Karen Montet-Toutain look for the second proposal. It considers that its proviseure has demonstrated laxity. The report does not share that analysis. "The proviseure did not do anything wrong on the fact itself," the inspectors decide. Since then, Mrs. Kapfer has changed its high school. Sitting in the box, Kevani Wansale did not bronché. It will be fixed on his fate Saturday.