Jean-Michel Blanquer, Minister of National Education, was the guest of “8h30 franceinfo”, Thursday, December 16. School performance, autonomy of school directors in Marseille and health pass for extracurricular activities … He answers questions from Salhia Brakhlia and Marc Fauvelle.
“Mediocre” performance of the school according to the Court of Auditors: a “very excessive adjective”
Asked about the note from the Court of Auditors on the performance of the French education system judged “mediocre”, Jean-Michel Blanquer regretted “this excessive and above all inappropriate adjective”. “It’s completely absurd” and “in reality it doesn’t mean anything”, did he react before denouncing “a taste for these excessive words”.
He assures that this note “refers to a 2016 study” and said to himself “a little weary” to have to comment on studies which, according to him, were carried out before he was appointed Minister of National Education in 2017.
“Look at the latest national developments: they show us CP, CE1 and CM2 students who are progressing”, said Jean-Michel Blanquer. He recognizes that “the figures for the sixth are still figures that must be further improved”.
Autonomy of school directors in Marseille: the experiment will take place, “of course”
Jean-Michel Blanquer assured him, some school directors in Marseille will be able to test the recruitment of teachers in their establishments, as Emmanuel Macron announced during his visit to the city on September 2. He had expressed his desire to make Marseille schools “a laboratory of freedom and means”, with the possibility for directors to “choose the teaching team”.
“It was abandoned”, assured Wednesday on franceinfo the mayor of Marseille Benoît Payan, according to which in France this provision is “prohibited”. “Not at all”, replied the Minister of National Education who highlighted “the right to experiment”.
Covid-19: a health pass for extracurricular activities “is not unimaginable”
“School is the place which by definition is open to everyone”, said Jean-Michel Blanquer on the possible implementation of a health pass for children when they are vaccinated. “This is not the doctrine that we have had so far. The idea is an open school that allows all children to go to school, even if their parents are anti-vaccine.”. But for extracurricular activities, “it’s not unimaginable”, it is “less unthinkable”.