The ecological presidential candidate, Yannick Jadot, does not rule out “reducing the duration of school holidays” and “reviewing the service obligations of teachers”, in an interview with La Croix published this Wednesday evening.
Balance school days
According to the MEP, “it is necessary to better articulate and balance basic knowledge during the day (reading, writing, counting) and devote more time to practical knowledge, nature, culture, sports, manual work”. For the EELV candidate, “this means looking at the contours of the year. I do not rule out reducing the length of holidays, especially that of the summer holidays, and therefore reviewing the service obligations of teachers”.
A proposal subject to consensus
But it will be up to the “consensus conference”, which he intends to set up, and “to collective negotiations, to define the terms”, adds the ecologist. “This meeting – which will be accompanied by the creation of positions and salary increases – should make it possible to repair the institution”, he adds. The ecologist specifies that he does not want to “reduce the share of fundamental knowledge” but “better distribute them over a longer annual school time”.