Accusations of discrimination against students at a Jewish high school in Paris are not proven, according to an investigation

Accusations of discrimination against students at a Jewish high school in Paris during the 2024 baccalaureate exam have not been confirmed by the administrative investigation launched by Minister Nicole Belloubet, the Ministry of Education said on Thursday, July 11.

The elements collected “do not allow us to conclude that the students of the Yabné high school suffered any discrimination on the grounds of their supposed religion or their original establishment”according to the survey results.

“While some students may have received lower marks in this very specific Grand Oral test than in other written tests in the same subjects, there is nothing to show that these marks awarded by a sovereign jury were for reasons other than the mastery or lack of mastery of this exercise by these students,” he adds. The examination procedures have been “compliant”, the investigation claims.

The examination procedures were “compliant”, claims the investigation. Nicole Belloubet had requested the opening of such an investigation“following reports concerning around fifteen students from the school group” private under contract Yabné in Paris, recalls the ministry.

On “the two incriminated juries”, for the first, “the analysis of the results of the candidates marked by this jury, by comparing the students from Yabné and the other students, does not reveal any distortion of marking”. And for the second, if “has been generally more severe, there is no evidence of real or supposed discrimination against high school students” Yabné, she adds.

Generally, “173 candidates took the oral exam in physics and chemistry” in the examination center located in the 18th arrondissement of Paris and “The distribution of grades does not show any major distortion for students at Yabné high school”according to the findings of the investigation.