Nicole Belloubet has backed down on the idea of level groups for sixth and fifth grade classes. By leaving establishments free to design pedagogy, she gives unions the possibility of sabotaging the middle school level groups wanted by Gabriel Attal, says the teacher and essayist Jean-Paul Brighelli.

The minister is one of those left-wing educators who think that the student who writes “I plant them” has competence in the plural, says BrighellI. The decline in school standards heralds the economic and moral weakening of the country.