Gabriel Attal wants to attack “evil at the root”. The Prime Minister, who accuses young people of being violent, announced several measures on the occasion of his 100 days in Matignon. Among them, the 35-year-old head of government announced that “all middle school students will be in school every day of the week, between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m.”.
According to a source at Matignon, this wide time slot will however be “reserved for colleges in priority education zones”. “There will be an experiment for voluntary colleges at the start of the 2024 school year then a generalization at the start of the 2025 school year,” specifies this same source from 20 minutes.
A schedule still unclear
If the Prime Minister of the Fifth Republic justified his choice by believing that the place of young people is “at school, to work and to learn” during the day, he did not however specify how middle school students will be occupied during this time. Whatever the distribution of time, between lessons, duty and lunch break, if the measure is implemented the middle school students concerned will be in their establishment 50 hours per week.
These announcements come after the death of Shemseddine, 15, who was beaten near his college two weeks ago. On Wednesday, President Emmanuel Macron asked his government to launch a major consultation to find solutions to the “emergence of ultraviolence” among minors.