The school bells will ring again. Some 12 million primary, secondary and high school students are returning to school on Monday, September 2, in an uncertain political context. The resigning Minister of National Education, Nicole Belloubet, will respect tradition by visiting schools in Bourg-la-Reine (Hauts-de-Seine) and Orléans (Loiret). “We really do everything to ensure that there is a teacher in front of each class”she said on France Inter, adding that “in the vast majority of cases the teachers are there”, without excluding absences “here and there”. Follow our live stream.
Several new features for students. The “needs groups” in French and mathematics, wanted by Gabriel Attal, will be set up in the 6th and 5th grades. National assessments are, themselves, generalized to all levels of elementary school. In the absence of a fully-fledged government, other reforms are pending, such as that of the middle school certificate.
Gabriel Attal launches a new campaign against school bullying. The resigning Prime Minister announced on Sunday a new national campaign against bullying at school. He will go to the Jean-de-la-Fontaine school in Issy-les-Moulineaux (Hauts-de-Seine) on Monday morning to present this initiative. This campaign will be visible on social networks, television and radio.
The FCPE fears a “tinkering” to guarantee a teacher in front of each student. “With the teachers’ unions, with whom we are in contact, we are talking about 3,000” teachers who are lacking across the country, lamented Abdelkrim Mesbahi, national president of the Federation of Parents’ Councils (FCPE) on franceinfo on Sunday. “It’s going to be a bit of a makeshift, we’re going to appoint the teachers at the last minute”he fears. “We recruit teachers through speed dating, it’s nonsense.”