A ballroom dance teacher at the elite French university Sciences Po Paris has been left without a job after she was reprimanded for insisting on calling dance students “men” and “women”, instead of using genderless language.
“I say women on one side and men on the other because in dance there is a role for the man and a role for the woman,” former Sciences teacher Po Valerie told AFP. She asked the outlet to only identify her by her first name.
“That’s the reason we parted ways,” he said.
The university told AFP that officials had called a meeting with Valerie over her use of “discriminatory” language. Valerie subsequently resigned from her job due to the university’s demands to use the words “leader” and “follower” instead of “men” and “women,” according to the outlet.
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A student who spoke to a Parisian outlet described Valerie as “old school” who had made the class “uncomfortable”.
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“We received a complaint from a female student…supported by several female students, that this teacher made discriminatory remarks during her class regarding the role of men in dance,” a Sciences Po spokesperson said. AFP.
“We asked her to stop doing it and she didn’t want to and decided not to continue with her classes.”
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Sciences Po told Fox News Digital on Sunday morning that the school “warned him about the requirement to stop his discriminatory comments, in accordance with French law and our internal code of ethics.”
“In light of this, and contrary to allegations in the press that she had been fired from Sciences Po, this teacher has informed our administration that she no longer has interest in continuing her class at Sciences Po,” the statement continued.
Valerie said that she refused to “bow down to the dictatorship.”
“They are censoring me. I will not bow down to the dictatorship. Forget being politically correct. What’s next? Swan Lake with a hairy swan?”
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The teacher argued that “there was a notion of seduction” between a ballroom dance couple, and added, “the truth is, two women dancing together, it seems ugly to me.”
Sciences Po added in its statement to Fox News Digital that it is “committed to fighting all forms of discrimination and therefore strongly denounces the falsehoods and political manipulation that a dance teacher’s resignation generates.”
Students are seen outside the Sciences Po de Paris university in Paris, France, March 15, 2016. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer
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Valerie specialized in tango, waltz, salsa and other styles of ballroom dancing for the school’s after-school programme, The Sunday Times reported.
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Sciences Po is a public research university that opened in 1872 and has an elite reputation due to its difficult admissions process.
