“It’s not urgent” reacts the SNES-FSU

The teaching union judges that the RN project for schools is “dangerous” and calls for voting for the Popular Front.

Authority at school, “it’s not urgent” believes Sophie Vénétitay, general secretary of Snes-FSU, guest of the show Ma France on France Bleu on Monday June 24. Jordan Bardella, RN leader for the legislative elections, presented his program for education this Monday. He announces “a big bang of authority” at the school which would intervene “from the start of September”. The RN proposes, for example, the end of the single middle school, the ban on mobile phones in establishments or even the wearing of uniforms.

“Emergency is not the shock of authorityanswers Sophie Vénétitay. Today, you have students who have not had lessons in certain subjects for weeks, or even months, simply because we do not have enough replacements. This should be a national scandal.”. She adds that “Students have classes in premises that are sometimes unworthy. We cannot make progress on the issue of the fight against harassment and all that, the National Rally does not talk about it.”

“Of course a disruptive student must be punished. We must remind him of the framework, we must remind him of the rulesassures Sophie Vénétitay. But all this must be done from an educational perspective. The school must learn to live together, to grow together.” The Snes-FSU thus opposes the end of the single college: “It is not by excluding certain students from a very young age or in an irremediable way that we will learn to live together and build the society according toestimates Sophie Vénétitay who describes this measure as “terrible flashback”.

For the union, the RN sends “a message of violence” by sorting the students. “What we are defending is that a greater number of students can access high levels of qualifications. There, we are aiming for a system that will really sort students, select them, assign them to their educational and social position”. Sophie Vénétitay thinks that it is “deleterious not only for the school, for the students, for their families, but also somewhere for democracy. What future do we give to all the young people of this country if we tell them that very early on, they are going to be sorted?” she questions.

The far right must not come to power.
In this serious and historic moment, the @SNESFSU takes responsibility.
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— SNES-FSU (@SNESFSU) June 19, 2024

His union therefore decided to commit to the Popular Front. “It’s a fairly unprecedented, historic decision”, recognizes Sophie Vénétitay. For the Snes-FSU, the National Rally school project is “dangerous”. “It is discriminatory. It would not lead our students and our colleagues towards a future of progress, towards a peaceful future. We are potentially two weeks away from this shift which would really plunge the school into a precipice”declares Sophie Vénétitay.