The opening of Parcoursup is “stress, a difficult context to live”, because high school students are not “not accompanied, not informed about the orientation”, denounced Thursday, January 20 on franceinfo Colin Champion, president of the La Voix lycéenne union, as final year students begin to select their higher education wishes on the Parcoursup orientation platform.
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Colin Champion recalls that, “since his arrival at the ministry” of National Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer “cut more than 7,500 teaching posts in the second degree”. He points out in particular the lack “guidance counselors” and evokes “appointment” guidance that “can last half an hour”. For a company “where young people can find a job that suits them and a training that suits them”, the representative of La Voix lycéenne pleads that we can “allow everyone to find the path that suits them, which is not the case today”. He points out that currently “high school students are turned away from college.”
“We have come back to questioning the right to have access to education, the right to have access to higher education. And this is extremely serious.”
Colin Champion, president of the La Voix lycéenne unionat franceinfo
High school students have “extremely afraid for their future.” The president of La voix lycéenne also affirms that today, the baccalaureate “has become local with 40% continuous assessment with subjects that are partly determined by the professors”. With regard to the orientation of high school students, “It depends on the school, it sometimes depends on the goodwill of our teachers who will agree to give up their hours of free time to support students individually and get them out of the mess a bit”. But the reality, he says, is that “Nothing has been concretely put in place by the minister nationally to guarantee everyone to have a place on Parcoursup.”
To make their choice from the 20,000 courses offered on the platform, high school students have “need time and therefore the means of guidance counselors who can accompany us” and it’s “what is sorely missing” in National Education, adds Colin Champion. “As long as we don’t have enough means, as long as we don’t have a real public guidance service, a public centre, the situation for moving from the world of studies to the world of work will not be resolved. .”