Macron draws a new citizen convention – Liberation
A new citizen convention for postpone a decision ? After having drawn only few consequences from the previous on the climate And The end of lifeEmmanuel Macron announces that he wanted to launch a new citizen agreement, on the school this time, said the Elysée, confirming information from Parisian.
« It seems necessary to me that we are working to ensure that the organization of our students’ days is more favorable to their development and learning, that a balance is also found to facilitate the lives of families », told the president to the newspaper. Using the expression of a citizen convention on « Child’s time »Emmanuel Macron avoids taking up that of « School rhythms »a conflicting reform with the establishment of the four and a half day week at the school implemented at the beginning of the five-year term of François Hollande and on which the ex-minister Vincent Peillon had ended up breaking his teeth.
But dividing subjects of school hours or the number of weeks of vacation will be well on the table. « France has a longer vacation than in many countries »said the head of state in February. In France, a school year is made up of at least 36 weeks of class, and 16 weeks of vacation. “There are many countries that only go on vacation from July 14. We have a holiday that is very very long in summer. Children who are not accompanied by their families will often lose school level. (…) The time of children is something that we will open, but it must be a little discussed ”he said. In reality, France is only located in the 27th row of European countries for the summer holidays, but climbs to 7th place all holidays combined.
For Emmanuel Macron, the field of education makes it possible to envisage reforms without going through the Parliament box where his camp does not have the majority, most of the provisions on the school under the regulatory field. « The Citizen Convention seemed to me to be the most suitable French consultation tool, because it is a very complex question that will require many consensus between all those who are affected by this vast subject, such as parents, the educational community including extracurricular, local authorities and even tourism professionals »added the head of state.
During his wishes for the year 2025, Emmanuel Macron had suggested the launch of a new citizen conventionor organization of a referendumsaying that the French would be brought to « Slice » On determining subjects.
As with the end of life, Emmanuel Macron decided to entrust the organization of this citizen convention to the Economic, Social and Environmental Council (EESC). “The democratic discomfort felt by our fellow citizens is also a crisis in the effectiveness of public action. And this is where participatory and social democracy takes on its full meaning by bringing the material necessary for better constructed, more applicable, better accepted public policies ”said its president, Thierry Beaudet.
As of now, the presidential initiative has attracted the wrath of the main teaching union of colleges and high schools. « It is an off-topic on the part of the President of the Republic on education issues »told AFP Sophie Venetitay, secretary general of SNES-FSU. « He is a diversion so as not to take care of the emergencies and hide the state of the school which collapses : We lack teachers, we have the most loaded classes in Europe… ”
« We consider today that the education system has reached a break point, and that we must absolutely rethink the school in its expectations, in its objectives, and it must be a social debate »on the contrary greets Grégoire Ensell, vice-president of the parents of students of the FCPE. “We have to rethink the question of school rhythms (…) but we ask that there is a much more global approach to the child. There are many other subjects to be tackled: the question of social and school diversity, that of disability, that of the workforce in the classes ”highlights Grégoire together.
