“It’s a good thing” and “it was about time we had this information”, says the Snes-FSU.

“It’s actually a good thing. I would even say that it was about time we had this information,” explains Monday, September 16 on franceinfo Sophie Vénétitay, general secretary of the Snes-FSU (the most representative union of the second level), while the brevet will ultimately not be modified this year, according to information from franceinfo from union and ministerial sources. The objective was then to increase the weight of the terminal tests in the final grade and especially to condition “direct access to high school” to obtain the brevet. Students who fail should go through a class “prep-second”.

“We started school 15 days ago, we welcomed our students and since then we have been holding parent-teacher meetings and 3rd grade meetings.” We were “sometimes quite helpless to be able to answer questions from parents and even questions from students to tell them what the brevet will look like at the end of the year or if the brevet will become compulsory to move up to the second year. Today things are very clear.”

Sophie Vénétitay insists: “It is very good news that the brevet will not become mandatory to move up to the second year of secondary school. We were faced with one of the key measures of the knowledge shock desired by Gabriel Attal.”. It was according to her “a measure of social sorting”. She is pleased that she “does not apply to the 2025 session. The next minister will then have to hear all of this and, above all, put the knowledge shock away and ensure that this reform does not apply to all sessions,” she hopes.

Sophie Vénétitay thinks of the families worried about what seemed like a “A patent that acts as a barrier at the end of the third year. A patent that acts as a barrier at the end of the third year would bring back nearly 50 years of democratization of the education system.”says the Snes-FSU. “It would have been completely unprecedented to prevent students from continuing their studies in high school. It would have served to set aside, to push aside, in specific classes, these famous preparatory-secondary classes with students from disadvantaged backgrounds, when it is they who must be supported with all the others towards success in high school.”