“We can say a little brutally that the school is doing badly with the poor and that it is unfair with the poor”, declared the Minister of National Education on Monday, in an interview with the Brut media.
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The issue of school co-education is “very clearly one of the priorities” of Pap Ndiaye, said the Minister of National Education to the media Brut, Monday, August 29. “We can say a little brutally that the school is doing badly with the poor and that it is unfair with the poor”he said in this interview, three days before the start of the school year.
On the solutions to this problem, “For example, we have to work on school diversity, we have to work so that priority education – the so-called REP, REP+ zones, and there are other measures – is well calibrated”defends the minister. “There is the question of the school map which is raised, there is the question of the valuation of establishments which are located in disadvantaged neighborhoods. There is a set of things on which we can act”.
The school map is the system affecting students in such and such an establishment, according to several criteria, including in particular the child’s home address. The international PISA studies (which study the education systems of OECD countries) show that France is one of the countries where a student’s social background has the most influence on their educational destiny, and has done so for several decades.