Late arrivals at school severely punished from the start of the school year, some parents risk a fine

Being late to pick up your child from School could be expensive from the start of the school year.

Starting this Monday, September 2, it's back to school. These are therefore the last hours to finish preparations such as purchasing all the materials. Some regulations have also changed for the new school year. Parents will have to be particularly organized, as several cities have decided to crack down on those who pick up their child late from school or daycare. In Toulouse, for example, the town hall has decided to impose a new rule on them at the start of the school year and it may not please everyone.

She has, in fact, announced that parents will really have to come and pick up their children on time at the Claé (Leisure Centres associated with the School), whereas to date 6,000 à 8000 late arrivals are observed per year. These can be recovered between 4:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. If parents do not respect this time slot, they will be subject to a financial penalty. 

“Any delay recorded in the evening may result in the invoicing of a fixed fee of 30 euros corresponding to the salary cost of the two animators who are forced to stay”, indicated the note sent to parents. This measure “aims to remind the importance of punctuality. Parents will first be notified by a warning letter.

The letter also states that such measures have already been taken in other establishments, notably in Strasbourg, Lille, Bordeaux and Marseille. Such a measure has, in any case, been applied in Moreuil in the Somme with penalties of five euros for five minutes late, ten for thirty minutes and fifty beyond. an hour and this is also the case in other localities even if the rates vary.

Marion Lalane-de Laubadère, first deputy mayor in charge of education, explains that it is not a question of penalizing parents who are exceptionally five minutes late but rather those  "who are regularly late, without any particular reason", like her she specified to Actu Toulouse. According to her, this concerns “a few hundred parents”. “The parents we are talking about, we can't even reach them in the event of a delay. And this can sometimes be up to “1h30″ late,” the elected official explained. Normally, in such a configuration, the child must be taken at the police station, but he “'has nothing to do with it, it's not his fault, and in reality, it's very complicated for an officer to take a child to the police".