The educational community awaits details concerning the support in sixth grade, and deplores a decisions without “clear objective”.
by Eléa Pommiers
No magnitude reform, but transformations in small touches. Seven months after taking office as Minister of National Education, Pap Ndiaye announced, Wednesday, January 4, first concrete measures for the college. A level erected in “priority, because we have assessments at the sixth century that are problematic,” he said.
To respond to this school level issue – whose minister deplored the decline in a recent platform in the world – the main announcement is the establishment of a weekly hour of support or deepening in mathematics or in French, compulsory from the start of the 2023 school year for some 800,000 sixth graders.
As is already the case in the Amiens Academy – where a “sixth springboard” system is experienced, which serves as inspiration for the Ministry of National Education and where Pap Ndiaye goes on Thursday -, These hours will be partly provided by school teachers “to promote the transition [to] college and support the learning of fundamental knowledge”; Two axes on which the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, had promised measures during his campaign. The “Duties made” system will also become compulsory in sixth.
For the fifth, fourth and third classes, a “consultation” is announced in the coming weeks. “All subjects will be discussed. These works will be able to relate to the procedures for evaluation. The national patent diploma will be revised if necessary”, according to the ministry.
The announcement has left unanimously circumspect unions, while the experiment of the Amiens Academy has only concerned six colleges for three months and has not been the subject of any evaluation. In the absence of details on the part of the Ministry of National Education in the immediate future, everyone wonders about the means which will be devoted to this time of support and on which will depend on the height of the announcements.
“cosmetics” measures
Will it be funded by adding an hour to the students’ time or replacing another hour of lessons? “We need to know it quickly, because we will receive our hourly endowments for next year, and we will not be able to set it up with constant means,” said Bruno Bobkiewicz, school head and secretary general of the SNPDEN- Unsa.
The blur also surrounds the intervention methods of school teachers in colleges, who will be “on the basis of volunteering”, according to rue de Grenelle. Teaching unions point to pitfalls linked to time jobs, travel when establishments are distant, and above all, working time. Because the hypothesis that the teachers concerned have time released on their school service obligations to ensure these hours seems not very credible in the eyes of the unions, which recall its high cost. “It is difficult to find enough teachers to make the replacements and the ministry plans to delete post next year, so it will surely go through overtime, while Half of the teachers are already working More than 43 hours a week “, underlines Guislaine David, at the head of the first primary union, the SNUIPP-FSU.
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