In front of the rectors of the academy gathered at the Paris University, the Head of State returned to the “new method” mentioned during a trip to Marseille, in June.
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Academy rectors probably did not expect such a mission sheet. In an opening speech to their traditional return to school – to which he was first invited – Emmanuel Macron designated them as the instigators of a “cultural revolution” in which they must be “carrying good news” and “facilitators” of projects. The latter welcomed the President’s words with a long standing ovation.
This address of a new genre to rectors is a way for Emmanuel Macron to reaffirm that he has placed educational subjects at the heart of this second five-year term, but also to readjust his positioning in relation to them. After a first council of ministers placed under the seal of the “end of abundance”, the school issues are now tackled in a less combative and more twilight tone: where the former Minister of Education was only ‘To chip the multiple transformations initiated since 2017, Emmanuel Macron, after having recalled them all, added that they would not be enough – that teachers lacked to the call and that inequalities were still as glaring.
The President of the Republic mentioned both “unhappy” students, “disillusioned” teachers and parents of “worried” students. “Something does not work in our collective organization,” added the president, who regretted that the education system is now marked by the reciprocal distrust of its actors. A call for “lucidity” in the form of a “failure of” failure “, to better announce future transformations. The clearly displayed objective is to go to a more free, more autonomous and more flexible – more liberal school, will say its detractors.
more autonomy
The presidential speech suggests that the redesign of the school concerns all ages, from kindergarten to high school. In the first ages of schooling, Emmanuel Macron calls for more room for the development of the child. In primary school, he insists on the importance of fundamentals and recalls ambition, announced in 2021 and which will materialize from this start of the school year, to establish half an hour of sport. In college, he evokes the establishment of half -days intended for the discovery of the trades, from the fifth, to improve the orientation of adolescents – with a word for school harassment, which prevails particularly in this age group. In high school, he recalls his ambition to strengthen the place of maths, a discipline already returned to the common trunk of first after having disappeared in the reform of the school.
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