https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from France in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed A Jewish teacher who pretended to have been the victim of anti-Semitic violence by supporters of the Islamic State group days after November's attacks in Paris received a six-month suspended sentence on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160513/jail-term-for-french-teacher-who-invented-isis-attack Fri, 13 May 2016 13:23:03 +0200 jail-term-for-french-teacher-who-invented-isis-attack A blind teacher in southern France was baffled to be called in to supervise students during a an exam. Despite her appeals that she wasn't est suited, her school forced her to do it. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150701/france-blind-teacher-told-to-supervise-exams Wed, 01 Jul 2015 17:36:12 +0200 france-blind-teacher-told-to-supervise-exams A teacher at a high school in central France has been temporarily suspended after her pupils reported her to education chiefs for allegedly repeatedly defending Adolf Hitler during German lessons. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150424/french-teacher-suspended-for-defending-hitler Fri, 24 Apr 2015 13:26:05 +0200 french-teacher-suspended-for-defending-hitler UPDATED: A 34-year-old French school teacher was stabbed to death in front her students on Friday by the mother of a pupil, prosecutors said. President François Hollande described the killing as a "horrific tragedy" and pledged support for children and staff at the school. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140704/french-teacher-stabbed-to-death-by-pupils-mum Fri, 04 Jul 2014 17:54:00 +0200 french-teacher-stabbed-to-death-by-pupils-mum Police across Europe are trying to track down a 15-year-old French girl who disappeared a week ago with her guitar teacher, a much older family friend thought to be in a suicidal state. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140417/euro-wide-hunt-for-suicidal-prof-and-teen-girl Thu, 17 Apr 2014 14:01:00 +0200 euro-wide-hunt-for-suicidal-prof-and-teen-girl Summer holidays are sacred in France and even more so it seems for French teachers. One union has called for a strike after the government did the unthinkable and timetabled the start of the autumn term before the end of August. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140206/french-teachers-to-strike-over-august-work Thu, 06 Feb 2014 18:53:00 +0100 french-teachers-to-strike-over-august-work A court in southern France on Tuesday acquitted a teacher over her involvement in the death of an 11-year-old pupil who was found hanged in a school corridor after being sent out of the class for misbehaving. https://www.thelocal.fr/20131029/french-teacher-acquitted-over-pupils-hanging Tue, 29 Oct 2013 10:54:00 +0100 french-teacher-acquitted-over-pupils-hanging A British maths teacher accused of abducting one of his 15-year-old students and absconding to France with her, has gone on trial, it was reported on Wednesday. A prosecutor told the court: "This is not Romeo and Juliet." https://www.thelocal.fr/20130612/trial-begins-of-runaway-british-teacher-arrested-in-france Wed, 12 Jun 2013 10:36:00 +0200 trial-begins-of-runaway-british-teacher-arrested-in-france Of all the inappropriate shapes a teacher could use to teach geometry a swastika has to be near the top of the list, but not for one prof in France, whose use of the Nazi symbol to demonstrate angles has landed her in a spot of bother. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130523/teacher-in-hot-water-for-using-swastika-in-geometry-class Thu, 23 May 2013 17:26:00 +0200 teacher-in-hot-water-for-using-swastika-in-geometry-class French Primary school teachers went on strike across the country on Tuesday to protest against government plans to extend their working week by half-a-day to four and a half days. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130212/french-teachers-strike-over-four-day-work-week Tue, 12 Feb 2013 12:01:00 +0100 french-teachers-strike-over-four-day-work-week A supply teacher was handed a two months suspended jail sentence this week for slapping three junior school children in the same class at a school in northern France. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130212/drunk-teacher-sentenced-for-slapping-three-pupils Tue, 12 Feb 2013 10:25:00 +0100 drunk-teacher-sentenced-for-slapping-three-pupils A French teacher has been arrested after allegedly trying to extort €10,000 from parents whose son he threatened with expulsion for throwing a piece of scrunched up paper at his face, a prosecutor said Friday. The teacher claimed he is the real 'victim'. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130201/teacher-extorts-10-000-for-pupils-paper-attack Fri, 01 Feb 2013 12:36:00 +0100 teacher-extorts-10-000-for-pupils-paper-attack Police have launched an inquiry into a substitute kindergarten teacher accused of tying a three-year old boy to his chair in the southern French town of Narbonne, according to French media reports. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130115/french-preschool-teacher-tied-boy-to-chair Tue, 15 Jan 2013 11:45:00 +0100 french-preschool-teacher-tied-boy-to-chair A British court has asked the French judiciary to add sexual charges to the warrant under which runaway British teacher Jeremy Forrest was extradited last month, judicial sources said. https://www.thelocal.fr/20121106/runaway-teacher-now-faces-sex-charges Tue, 06 Nov 2012 11:41:24 +0100 runaway-teacher-now-faces-sex-charges British police on Wednesday charged Jeremy Forrest, the British teacher who ran away with a 15-year-old pupil, after he was extradited from France back to England. https://www.thelocal.fr/20121011/runaway-teacher-charged-with-child-abduction Thu, 11 Oct 2012 11:34:00 +0200 runaway-teacher-charged-with-child-abduction A French court on Thursday ordered the extradition of a married British teacher who fled with a 15-year-old pupil and faces charges of kidnapping a minor. https://www.thelocal.fr/20121004/british-teacher-extradited-by-french-court Thu, 04 Oct 2012 13:05:00 +0200 british-teacher-extradited-by-french-court A married British teacher who fled with a 15-year-old schoolgirl to France agreed Tuesday to be extradited, as his lawyer said the arrested fugitive wanted his "full story" to emerge. https://www.thelocal.fr/20121002/fleeing-teacher-agrees-to-british-extradition Tue, 02 Oct 2012 16:16:00 +0200 fleeing-teacher-agrees-to-british-extradition A 15-year-old British schoolgirl who ran away to France with a married teacher twice her age flew back home Saturday, while he stayed in prison awaiting extradition. https://www.thelocal.fr/20121001/fleeing-british-teacher-in-french-prison-schoolgirl-returns-home Mon, 01 Oct 2012 18:53:00 +0200 fleeing-british-teacher-in-french-prison-schoolgirl-returns-home A European Arrest Warrant has been issued for a married British teacher who ran away to France with a 15-year-old girl in his maths class, British police said on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20120927/european-arrest-warrant-for-teacher-who-fled-to-france Thu, 27 Sep 2012 17:51:00 +0200 european-arrest-warrant-for-teacher-who-fled-to-france British police were liaising with French colleagues on Monday in an effort to track down a missing 15-year-old girl said to have fled across the Channel with a married teacher twice her age. https://www.thelocal.fr/20120924/teacher-flees-to-france-with-pupil-half-his-age Mon, 24 Sep 2012 13:59:00 +0200 teacher-flees-to-france-with-pupil-half-his-age