At first glance, there is nothing to distinguish “Saint-Joe”, called Saint-Joseph Viale, from other school groups in La Cabuchelle, one of the famous northern districts of Marseille. Although the institution is Catholic, there is no catechism “interfaith time”. The children, from the age of 2 to the age of three, are more than 95% Muslim, of North African immigration. The same screams are heard in the courtyard of the adults and the adjacent kindergarten. The same buildings, more or less dilapidated, rub shoulders with the same foregrounds. There’s a vegetable garden, like everywhere else, and body awakening classes before going to class in the morning. Mothers, veiled or not, and the few fathers who accompany the younger ones, are asked to remain at the door of the facility, where no one enters without proper authorization.
Nothing distinguishes Saint-Joy, therefore, except the essential; The parents of about 500 students and forty teachers did not arrive there until…
Source: Le Figaro
