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Arwen Conod says act “to protect children”. This Geneva mother, residing in neighboring France, is one of the parents who fight against the exclusion of border students from the cantonal school system. It announced on this Monday of the start of the school year, on behalf of the Collective School for all, the filing of several legal appeals against the decision of the Council of State. “Excluding border students educated in the canton will not lighten the burden of schools. But that will break life courses. ”
For this collective, acting on behalf of 48 families but counting according to him many supporters, forcing border students to join the French school system represents a false economy and a particularly destabilizing measure for children and their entourage. The Council of State, it estimates at 27 million francs per year the potential economy for cantonal finances when the measure has deployed all its effects.