Education: can mathematics return to the common core as of the next school year?

The commitment had been made by Emmanuel Macron and confirmed by the former Minister of National Education Jean-Michel Blanquer. Mathematics will return to the common core for first year students.

>> The return of maths in the common core from the start of the next school year worries the heads of establishments

The discipline had become an optional education since 2019 and the high school reform led by the former Minister of National Education. However, on Wednesday May 25, 2022, there is still no official decision on this matter, as time is running out and the end of the year is fast approaching.

The new minister Pap Ndiaye is still vague on the calendar. According to him, the return of mathematics to the common core is “deed”except that he does not specify for when: is it from the start of the next school year, as promised by the re-elected head of state, or is it at the start of the 2023 school year?

Obviously, this change of schedule would change everything. The unions of teachers and heads of establishments are against an application from September 2022. According to them, the deadline is much too short, the means of the establishments have been distributed for a long time and it is very likely that many high schools lack of math teachers.

Second year students must make their choice of specialties for next year these days and no one can tell them if they will have maths in the common lessons.

The associations of professors and learned societies have reiterated their firm opposition to the proposed program, published two weeks ago. They evoke acatalog without overall consistency“, a number of themes covered “unsuitable” and a treatment that shows the “profound ignorance of the editors“.