These discussions had been requested by several organizations and representatives of parents and students during the January 13 mobilization day.
Le Monde with AFP
COVID-19 epidemic requires, the specialty tests of the Bac, scheduled for 14 to 16 March, could be arranged or postponed at the end of March, or in May or June. The Minister of National Education must consult unions and representatives of parents and students, Friday, January 28 at midday. Jean-Michel Blanquer accepted these discussions, requested by several organizations, during the January 13 mobilization day.
“The question is now arbitrate between March, May and June. Mars, that’s what was planned, and it’s always better to do what was planned,” said Jean- Michel Blanquer on BFMTV Wednesday. “Mars also allows students to have (…) a note at this time of the year, who will then count in Pansup,” he continued, pushing the “revaluation of the bac”.
He also mentioned “developments around the test as it will be”. “But those who say May or June also have arguments when they say that the health crisis has created delays in students, that they have to leave them time. You have to know how to hear that too,” he had nuanced.
Some teachers and heads of establishment, such as the National Union Union of Autonomous Trade Unions (SE-UNSA), are in favor of a postponement, while others, including the National Second Degree Teachers Union ( SNES, first among college and high school teachers), lean for a postponement in June.
Thirty-two percent of the final score
These specialty tests – which concern the two “specialties” chosen by the high school students in the terminal – were born from the reform of the baccalaureate decided by Jean-Michel Blanquer; They account for 32% of the final score of this review. They have never been organized, because of the health crisis. In 2021 (first year of the new tray), these tests had been canceled, replaced by continuous control.
For several weeks, lessons are disrupted by the absences of professors and students with COVID-19. But a postponement in June would mean that the high school students of Terminale will set the two specialty tests: the philosopher, then the great oral, a test that comes out of the ordinary for French students. As for the corrective teachers of these events, they will have, at the same time, to pass the great oral, the anticipated events of French and the tests of philosophy.
All hypotheses are still on the table. Students, teachers and parents, if they do not agree on the desired schedule, all call for a “fast” answer.