To get your baccalaureate, you have to work regularly ... The saying has never been so true. It is largely on continuous monitoring that graduation will be based, for lack of being able to organize writings in June for some 700,000 candidates.
This Friday, Jean-Michel Blanquer, the Minister of National Education, must decide on the maintenance of at least one final test, which would have the merit of bringing students together around a highly symbolic and unifying meeting, but also has a very big drawback: in the event of prolongation of the confinement, the test could be canceled in extremis. The demand from family representatives to be fixed as quickly as possible on a reliable scenario is becoming more and more pressing.
How to print the subjects?
Other material constraints, sometimes unexpected, weaken the organization of writing. How to print millions of subjects, when the printing service providers are stopped? And "what about making copies, in times of shortage of paper pulp, used for making masks?" questions one of the participants in a meeting organized Wednesday by the Directorate General of School Affairs.
The ministry is also working on the way in which continuous supervision for the terminales will be organized. Do all the notes in the Parcoursup dossier, including the first ones, have to weigh? And what about those obtained in recent weeks, during confinement? "It would not be reasonable to take them into account," argues Hubert Salaün, of the PEEP parents' federation, aware that "the divide between the pupils is not only digital: there are pupils in difficulty who do not arrive just not working alone at home. ”
Benevolence
Unthinkable, for him, that the success rate in the bac collapsed "while few generations of baccalaureate graduates will have suffered as much as this year".
All kindness? Without going so far as to "give" the bac, it is in any case the watchword that could have been passed. If the remedial oral exams cannot take place, the experts are considering replacing them with a simple examination of the files by the juries. This draft could exceptionally be open to all shortfalls, including those whose average is below the normally eliminatory score of 8/20.
