The Minister of Education calls for “uniting”. Gabriel Attal asked this Thursday before the rectors that the school be “firm” in the face of attacks on secularism, such as religious outfits. “Our school is tested. In recent months, religious outfits such as abayas or qamis have appeared in certain establishments. The firmness of the school’s response is put to the test by these new phenomena, in the face of the battering, in the face of attacks, in the face of attempts at destabilization. We have to unite. And we are going to unite, ”assured the minister before the rectors gathered at the Sorbonne in Paris.
Gabriel Attal will inform them “formally and in the very next few days of the course of action for the start of the school year in this area”. “We are going to have to be firm in this matter,” warned the minister. According to a note from the state services, of which AFP obtained a copy, attacks on secularism, much more numerous since the assassination of Samuel Paty, increased by 120% between the school year 2022-2023 and 2021. -2022. The wearing of signs and outfits, which represent the majority of attacks, has increased by more than 150% throughout the last school year.
The return of math in 1st grade
The traditional back-to-school intervention before the rectors, a first for Gabriel Attal, took place the day after the publication from an interview with Emmanuel Macron in Point where he spoke at length about the school now presented as his “reserved domain”.
During his speech, Gabriel Attal wishes to decline as of this start of the school year via “the training of teachers, the experimentation of the opening of colleges from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. in each academy or the reintroduction in 1st of mathematics within the common trunk “.
Attracting young people to teaching
On the subject of the National Council for Refoundation (CNR) on the School, wanted by Emmanuel Macron, Gabriel Attal asked the rectors “to shed light on innovations” and by encouraging establishments which “have not yet done so. to get involved in a CNR project from the start of the school year”.
The Minister also addressed the question of the attractiveness of the teaching profession, insisting on the fact that “recognition will not stop at remuneration”. “I will therefore launch a major plan for the attractiveness and recognition of the teaching profession to encourage more and more of our young people to become teachers and to remain so,” he announced.