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The communist presidential candidate wants to increase the time spent in school but end homework. He also advocates increasing teachers’ salaries and reducing the number of students per class.
“Homework must be done at school”estimated Fabien Roussel, candidate of the French Communist Party (PCF) for the presidential election, Wednesday January 26 on franceinfo. “I want children to spend more time at school, that they leave school at 5.30 p.m., for example, but that when they leave school they have no more homework to do”, he specified. Fabien Roussel sees it “a measure of social equality” because “some are in large families or do not have parents who can help them”. The PCF candidate wishes to introduce this measure “quickly so that the children, when they leave school, are free, that they can go and play music, sports, spend time with family, flourish”.
However, according to him, it is not a question of drastically increasing the time children spend in school. “We want to go towards 32 hours of teaching, on average, less in primary, more in high school”, he said. The day of high school students who have options can reach 36 hours, that of middle school students 32 hours, and that of kindergarten students 27 hours, against “24 hours today”.
“It’s a project that I want to build with the educational teams, with the teachers”, added Fabien Roussel. The candidate assured that it was also not a question of increasing the working time of teachers. “We need to train 90,000 teachers, on a mandate, to be able to meet this need”he said, while wanting “reduce the number of students per class” and “increase teachers’ salaries by 30%” for “catch up with the index point freeze they have suffered for 11 years”.