This is a major issue in Ile-de-France. That of recovering the lost pupils, all school levels combined, during this confinement. The regional prefecture has decided to reinforce its action and has "established a regional plan to support the accompaniment of pupils and families encountering the most difficulties in this context".
At the end of April, it launched a program in Paris in partnership with the rectorate, the prefecture and the city. "We are implementing enhanced support for 1,000 children from QPV (Political Districts of the City)", announces the State. The Paris rectorate will not say more about this system, despite our requests.
Difficult to compile statistics
These students, considered to be a fragile audience, are at the heart of concerns a few days before the reopening of educational establishments. As a sign that the subject is complex, it is difficult to know precisely how many of the 2.4 million schoolchildren (from kindergarten to high school) in the region, or 20% of the national school population, have "disappeared".
"In mid-March we were around 8% of students [in France] who could not reach us," details Edouard Geffray, director general of school education. A lot of work has been done, teachers have called families and the number has dropped to 4%, according to a large survey conducted in early April. Since then, we have had no new figures. "On the Versailles Academy (Val-d'Oise, Yvelines, Hauts-de-Seine and Essonne), the largest in France, they were" 4 to 5% before the holidays ", on a a total of 1,173,213 students.
"We can't do more than phone them and send messages"
To respond to this phenomenon "linked to the city's political districts", notes Edouard Geffray, distributions "of material to those who did not have it" were carried out. With a view to resuming classes, "these families will be called first, we will have direct support, individualized for them," says Edouard Geffray. But you can't do more than phone them and send messages. ”
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