Emmanuel Macron wants to change the school. The President of the Republic is expected at the end of the morning at Louise-Michel college in Ganges (Hérault) Thursday April 19, where he will meet with teachers, students and parents of students. The ambition is clear, underlines the Elysée: “change our school” For “reconnect with the ambition to be one of the best in Europe”. He will be accompanied by the Minister of Education Pap Ndiaye and the Secretary of State for Veterans and Memory Patricia Mirallès. After his tense visit to Alsace on Wednesday, this trip to the south-west of the country also promises to be eventful. Follow our live.
Booed in Alsace, expected in Hérault. Emmanuel Macron was booed in Sélestat. “You have to hear the anger, I’m not deaf to it”said the head of state. “This anger is expressed, I did not expect anything else but it will not prevent me from continuing to move”, he added. The reception also promises to be strong in Ganges where the local representative of the CGT, Mathieu Guy, talks about “provocation” of a president “who does not answer the question of pensions and comes to walk in the countryside to talk about something else”.
Ways to continue the transformation of public schools. The President of the Republic should specify the axes mentioned during his televised speech on Monday. He promised the school would change “at a glance” from September, with teachers “better paid”students “more support” in French and mathematics in particular, and a “systematic replacement of absent teachers”.