While mathematics is returning to first class as an option from the start of the 2022 school year, schools have registered few candidates so far. A problem of calendar but also of appetite for discipline, according to a principal.
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“All that for that”, is the expression that often comes up, on the part of the principals, after the announcement of the return of mathematics in the common core in high school, in the form of an optional course of 1h30 in class first.
For example, between 10 and 15 students out of 300 have chosen to teach in this high school in Lannion, less than 10 out of 160 in this establishment in Toulouse. Or about twenty out of more than 200 in St Quentin. Nowhere does optional math seem to work.
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“It may be due to the late arrival of information”assumes Olivier Beaufrère, headmaster in Essonne and national secretary of the union of heads of establishments SNPDEN. “In addition, the students have lost their appetite for mathematics. This is the real reflection to be carried out for the start of the 2023 school year.”
“You really need to have an overall vision and not a fragmented vision over a few hours in the first year.”
Olivier Beaufrereat franceinfo
In most high schools, students will be able to choose this optional education until the last moment, at the start of the school year in September. But as it was announced very late, when the timetable organizations were already well advanced, it risks being offered on the last available time slots: in the evening after 5 p.m., or on Wednesday afternoons.