Since the implementation of the lycée reform in 2019, the material had disappeared from the teachings of common trunk from the first. An optional teaching, which had been reintroduced to the start of the 2022 school year, has hardly convinced.
Le Monde with AFP
It was one of the most controversial measures of the Blanquer reform: the abolition of the teaching of mathematics of the common trunk of first class. After two years of twists and turns, the Ministry of National Education announced, Sunday, November 13, the return of a “compulsory” teaching of mathematics in the first of the general sector, from the start of the 2023 school year.
Educational community, researchers, great bosses and politicians had worried about the drop in scientific pool as well with the strengthening of social and gender inequalities caused, since the reform implemented in 2019, by the disappearance of mathematics of the common core compulsory.
At the beginning of June, Emmanuel Macron had acted the return of the option as the first class in September. Div>
If the Ministry of National Education still awaited final figures, it estimated in mid-October that “less than 10 %” of eligible high school students have chosen to follow this teaching this year, a great minority of between them.