Emmanuel Macron pleaded Friday to
"teach more the Arabic language at school"
or
"in an extracurricular that we master"
because
"our youth is also rich in this plural culture",
during his speech on "separatism" at Les Mureaux .
A sentence that did not react much.
A sign of the times?
Usually, right-wing and far-right politicians castigate the very idea of relaunching the teaching of Arabic, the latter potentially leading to "
communitarianism undermining national cohesion.
», We heard.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, then Jean-Michel Blanquer, have experienced strong hostility in recent years when they raised this subject, each in turn as ministers of education.
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Associated with immigration, Islam, even terrorism, the Arabic language suffers from a controversial aura, from an "
image deficit
", prefers the general inspector of Arabic, Sophie Tardy.
And this learning is very far from attracting crowds, whatever
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