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Despite the significant allocations from the State and communities, the dysfunction of control mechanisms encourages abuse and certain establishments take advantage of this to cultivate opacity on the use of these subsidies. To the point that a growing number of teachers and parents are organizing, despite pressure, to denounce these practices.
No stress, “there is no conflict between the two schools”. During his press conference on Tuesday, Emmanuel Macron decreed the end of the controversy over the private sector, pleading “indulgence” for the new Minister of National Education. Amélie Oudéa-Castéra has indeed set foot in the dish at the speed of a rocket. His comments on his choice to educate his children in the private sector have all the more resonance because they highlight a reality, which has become glaring: the acute competition exerted by private education on the public… with funding from the State and communities. And without control.
In France, the private sector under contract, which represents 7,500 establishments, 96% Catholic, is in reality private only in name: they all fuel with public money, covering more than 75% of their operating costs. It is the Debré law of 1959, a little shaky from the start and adopted on the edge, which organizes things. Rights and rewards: welcoming children without distinction, respecting school programs and the strict principle of secularism during school hours.
Amélie Oudéa-Castéra rushed headlong, without realizing that she was reopening a Pandora’s box, and perhaps the “school war” that