“This version is more in line with what we were asking for,” says SNPDEN

“This version is more in line with what we were asking for”declared Friday May 19 on franceinfo Laurence Collin, Deputy Secretary General SNPDEN (National Union of National Education Management Staff), received by the cabinet of the Minister of National Education on Tuesday May 16 to talk about the SNU (Universal National Service ).

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The government plans to set up a 12-day cohesion course during school time for second-year students from the start of the school year in September. The latest version under study proposes to entrust it to the National Education in the form of volunteering, in centers near the students’ homes. But several questions still remain unanswered: is it compulsory for everyone? Is it only for students of French nationality?

Points that question Laurence Collin: “If we are on a class project, this project must not be discriminatory”.

“We have to be able to take all the students”

Laurence Collin, from the National Union of National Education Management Staff

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For the Deputy Secretary General, the other problem “these are the 12 days, so that would be two weeks of uninsured classes. The only period when it can take place without risk for the other disciplines is the month of June and the ministry told us that all the classes could not do it in June”.

She believes that “it looks more and more like a school trip but whoever says school trip says that students can refuse to participate”. She adds that if it is seen as a school trip, it must pass “before the board of directors of the establishment which will remain in control of the decision”.

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Laurence Collin insists that she wants all this to be done without pressure: “That we do not make the policy of numbers with an obligation to send a number of students defined in advance and with repeated emails and phone calls to check that we are achieving these objectives”. In addition, the Deputy Secretary General also asked the State “to give us time to put this in place during the pre-return and the start of the school year”.