50,000 children are affected by the possible end of family education (IEF).
This is little, given the 12 million pants funds that wear out the chairs of the National Education.
But it is a lot if their homes, each in their own corner, become improvised lobbyists, calling on deputies, mayors and senators, to explain all the harm they think of the future law on separatism, and in particular of the provision obliging all children from the age of 3 to enroll in a school - excluding exemptions for special cases.
This measure, presented as historic by the Head of State in his speech at Les Mureaux on October 2, sounded like "a sledgehammer" for the main stakeholders, explains André Stern, author and among the leading figures of " homeschooling ”, in which he was raised and which he practices today as a“ philosophical choice ”for his two children aged 4 and 11.
The speaker immediately opened his address book, looking for the names of personalities who could relay his excitement.
Many others are doing the same.
Without waiting for the presentation of the bill on Wednesday in the Council of Ministers, the associations which are beginning to structure the heterogeneous galaxy of the IEF, have begun the work of influence.
With a main argument, patiently brought before parliamentarians who will have to discuss the text: “We cannot suppress a freedom on the pretext that a small minority of people would misuse it.
Family education, everyone may need it at some point in their life, "says Anne Coffinier, president of the association Create your school, which recalls that" 50% of people who practice IEF do it for less. 'a year ".
Serial events this weekend
"We are already checked every year: the proposal to ban something regulated will not solve the problem of children outside the system: we are missing the target", adds André Stern, determined to "leave the country" if the measure ends up passing through the caudine forks of parliament and the constitutional council.
Taking up the rhetoric popularized by the yellow vests, the supporters of the IEF are launching this weekend "act 2" of their resistance, with demonstrations announced throughout France, in Toulouse, Limoges, Saint-Brieuc, Mantes- la-Jolie… Several groups, including the Laia association, were also received, in the form of a videoconference, by Jean-Michel Blanquer's advisor in charge of the case, Richard Senghor, then by representatives of Marlène Schiappa's cabinet, place Beauvau.
"They listened to us politely, by referring to National Education," regrets Alix Fourest, spokesperson for Laia, whose agenda is riddled with meetings with deputies.
This Thursday, it was the turn of Boris Vallaud (PS).
“Removing freedom will not help prevent radicalization,” she pleads.
Questioned by "parents" of her constituency, the LR MP for Maine-et-Loire, Anne Laure Blin, invited all of her colleagues from the hemicycle on November 19 to a 1.5 hour discussion with a dozen or so. family associations: 80 responded present "and there were more LREM deputies than members of my group", she remarks.
She herself came out convinced that the end of the IEF would be "a mistake".