Back to school early to August 20? Teachers criticize Emmanuel Macron’s announcements

Redesign of programs, reorganization of the calendar… On Wednesday 23 August, he said in an interview granted to the magazine Point that Emmanuel Macron has announced a series of measures to reform the school and the daily life of students.

And among the announcements that make unions and parents jump, the president wishes bring forward the start of the school year to August 20th For ” struggling students “, that we ” will have evaluateds” for “allow them to catch up”.

A stigmatizing measure according to several teachers’ unions

Heralded as a revolution, this device to exist already for nearly thirty yearsas reported The world, based on the model of refresher courses carried out on a voluntary basis. But its systematization is worrying, and teachers’ unions point to a process” stigmatizing against some students, notably SE-UNSA, by voice of Jerome Fournier In The world :

” Education cannot be different from one student to another. It’s like saying to students: ‘You can’t make it, so you’ll have fewer holidays’”.

For his part, Guislaine DavidAlso , co-secretary general and spokesman of the teachers union SNUipp-FS, strongly criticized this announcement on the microphone of franceinfo. According to her, this measure “seems to be a punishment for students already struggling “.

Statements that constitute an obstacle to ” right to vacation » students, but also teachers: “This is a problem because for some years now we have been used to having comments about the school that exhaust the school and the staff. » regrets the teacher.

Education Minister Gabriel Attal is committed to banning the abaya and testing the uniform

If for the moment Gabriel Attal, the new French Minister of National Education and Youth, has not expressed himself on these controversial measures, he is already communicating others, which should respond to his ” republican concerns “. Like the ban on the abaya in school and the experimentation of the uniform in different municipalities, before the end of the year, confides to the World :

“We’ve been talking about it for years. Everyone has an opinion on the subject. But nothing happened. I personally want to continue the debate – it’s about really experiencing it. […] These are not right-wing issues, but Republican concerns.”

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