Universal National Service (SNU) will be rolled out in high schools from September

Universal National Service (SNU) will be rolled out in high schools from September

From the beginning of the school year, in September, the government plans to organize a twelve-day internship in high schools, in uniform and during school hours, for second-year students.

The generalization of the universal national service (SNU), the government cares. Halfway between civilian service and military service, this system will be extended to high schools, and this from the beginning of next school year, in September, he revealed on Wednesday 17 May Politics.

An SNU on volunteering and awarded on Parcoursup

In this way, teachers or school leaders will be able to apply for a call for projects on the subject from the beginning of the next school year to obtain a label. Then a stay of twelve days of school hours they could be offered to one or more second classes. In the program: uniform, raising the colors, and Marseillaise sung every morning.

This system could be applied on a voluntary basis: no one will be forced to carry out an SNU. Participants, on the other hand, will then be rewarded on Parcoursup.

Read also: Sexism, racism, humiliation: politics reveals the reverse side of the Universal National Service

A device strongly criticized by the teachers’ unions, which was revealed to the unions during the meetings organized this week at the State Secretariat for Youth. Second Sophie Venetitaydeputy general secretary of the SNES-FSU, “ students need school not SNU “, he reacted Info France.

In a survey released on April 18, Politics revealed a climate of predation within a SNU center. The investigation denounced the actions of a commander and a lieutenant colonel during two stays, who reported sexual harassment, racist comments or even humiliation of volunteers. An internal investigation is underway.

We recall that the SNU is aimed at French young people aged 15 to 17. It consists of a two-week stay in a boarding school, a general interest mission of at least 84 hours and an optional third phase of voluntary commitment, by enrolling in the civic reserve or carrying out, for example, a civic service. He mobilized 32,000 young people in 2022.


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