The Head of State presented, Thursday, August 25, before the rectors of the academy, several axes of transformation of the school system. If some fall under detail, others are real substantive sites, which question the educational community.
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The format surprised, and the background too. Thursday August 25 in the morning, Emmanuel Macron opened, unprecedented, the return conference of the rectors of the academy. In a speech broadcast on the social networks of the Elysée, the Head of State detailed the roadmap for the coming months and the ambitions of his second five -year term, by drawing up an unflattering assessment of the state of the school system .
He then stated the measures to be taken, before calling for the change of method announced before summer, for a more flexible and less centralized management of the school system. In the educational community, the presidential discourse was welcomed with circumspection.
- The “great work” promised in establishments, out of step with expectations
To describe this new functioning based on the proposal of the field, the President of the Republic spoke of “great work” to “build a new project, school by school”. The projects decided by the teaching teams will benefit from an “educational innovation fund” with 500 million euros. But for the main interested parties, the roadmap is not clear and seems to be offset from the current crisis, that of the recruitment and the purchasing power of the teachers.
“If it is a question of putting the parents of students and the staff around a table, it is called a board of directors and we know how to do it, notes Bruno Bobkiewicz, secretary general of the union of principals SNPDEN-UNSA. On the other hand, the establishments will not want to organize things if they have the feeling that it will not give anything. “Emmanuel Macron insisted on the” freedom “of the educational teams to propose or not projects. For Bruno Bobkiewicz, making the participation optional “is already a way of admitting that it is not such a good idea”.
“The school does not need to launch projects, it needs means”, is alarmed by Guislaine David, of the SNUIPP-FSU, while the Head of State assumed his conviction that the means additional would not solve difficulties.
The idea of indexing funding on projects also worries: what about those who have not offered anything, for lack of time or because part of the teachers’ room opposes it? “We will spend three months to debate so that in the end we distribute tablets, because that’s always how it ends,” annoys Jean-Rémi Girard, of the National Union of High Schools and Colleges ( SNALC). “That they put the 500 million euros in the salary catching up, it will go faster.”
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