Terror attacks have frightened teachers and pushed a country to reevaluate its freedoms
Post Date: February 12, 2021 French Prime Minister Jean Castex, second from right, and Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer attend an homage to slain history teacher Samuel Paty in November at a school near Paris. (Thomas Coex, Pool via AP)
Marie Dautry’s 11-year-old son came home from school in November in Beaucourt, France, upset about a lesson. His teacher had shown the class a caricature of Jesus originally published in satirical magazine
Charlie Hebdo. Dautry’s son, a Christian, didn’t like it.
The image was part of a lesson to honor teacher Samuel Paty, who was beheaded in October. Police killed his murderer, and in January French anti-terrorism police detained seven more suspected contacts of Paty’s killer.