The principal of Orleans High School, where a recent dress code bombing sparked student protests, will leave her job later this month.
The Conseil des écoles catholiques du Center-Est (CECCE) announced the departure of Marie-Claude Veilleux on Thursday in a letter to parents.
The announcement of the meeting comes two weeks after hundreds of students demonstrated through the street of the École secondaire catholique Béatrice-Desloges.
The students denounced the application of the code by the staff as “humiliating”. The day before the protest, mostly the girls were removed from class to see if their clothes fit the rules.
School staff called police to handle the protest making sure students stayed on the sidewalk and kept traffic slow.
The letter to the parents does not mention any connection between the recent controversy and the director’s departure.
Students protest in front of Béatrice-Desloges Catholic High School on May 13, following the bombing of the dress code. (Francis Ferland / CBC)
Veilleux will be replaced by Sébastien Pharand, deputy director of the École Secondaire Catholique Garneau, on May 30, but will not leave the school board.
She is being transferred to a position in the CECCE learning support services, the letter states.
Pharand has been working with the French Catholic Board since 2004.
“It’s a return home for this professional who worked at the Béatrice-Desloges school for more than 15 years as an art teacher,” the letter says in French.