"100% face-to-face teaching": on the Parcoursup application file for this Hauts-de-France high school student going to a business school, the mention appears in capitals, in the box dedicated to the principal teacher, and that of the principal.
“Our students had the chance to work face-to-face,” said another teacher a little above.
At the time of sorting out files before entering higher education, the message is clear: this high school student has followed a normal year, in class, and he will be better than his comrades who had to suffer the distancing, source late according to many teachers.
Because, since the fall, high schools must apply a “hybrid” operation, that is to say, only accommodate part of the workforce to avoid mixing and stop contamination.
However, if some establishments have played the health game thoroughly, others have allowed their terminal to come every day to the premises to follow the courses.
According to Sophie Vénétitay, national secretary of Snes-FSU, the main secondary teaching union, point out in the applications, "distorts the selection of students for higher education".
"We can not have a precise figure, but it goes back to all the academies in France," said the trade unionist.
Obviously, especially from private high schools, but also some public establishments.
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"I pretend it doesn't exist"
Example in the south of France.
Florence, a mathematics teacher, is responsible, along with five colleagues, to examine 1,690 applications for a veterinary field.
It keeps its accounts: after studying 200 files, 38 establishments mention a total face-to-face.
“Knowing that there are sometimes six or seven students, depending on the school, the number is high.
»Responsible for« sorting »the applicants according to their level, does it take this prohibited mention into account?
“No, I'm just pretending that doesn't exist.
I know the colleagues I work with do like me.
Do all reviewers do the same?
Hard to say.
For Florence, it would have been necessary to force the high schools to organize their half-gauges all in the same way.
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This is confirmed by the Snes-FSU, which considers that the Minister of National Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer, "should have given a national framework on the question of the hybrid". As a reminder, the possibility of operating a little face-to-face, a little at a distance, was put on the table by the authorities in early November, when photos of crowded sideboards emerged on social networks, in the midst of the second epidemic wave. "The organizational arrangements (of the hybrid) are left to your discretion", wrote the minister, on November 4, to the heads of establishments, leaving them the choice on a half-group operation, a reception by levels. , or by number of days per week.
"As it was not framed, high schools have chosen to accommodate all their final, in their classes, every day," recalls Sophie Vénétitay.
They were able to provide "all the programs, without being disturbed by the distance", she adds, regretting that they "ignore the health situation".
Because teleworking is damaging: in certain sectors, especially professional ones, teachers believe that it has caused serious learning deficiencies.
"The impression of not fighting on equal terms"
What are the students saying? "It's scandalous: my high school has done a lot of hybrid, I have been in distancing several weeks a month since the beginning of the year ... so I feel like I'm not fighting on equal terms with other candidates. Especially since I have chosen very selective courses in Parcoursup, ”laments Antoine, a high school student in Limoges (Haute-Vienne). Paul, in Seine-Saint-Denis, adds: “We should not be harmed because of the choices of our principal or those of the National Education! "
Rue de Grenelle, we assure you: nobody will take into account the prohibited mention. “This element can in no way constitute a criterion for assessing applications. This has never been a criterion and no higher education training could have retained such a criterion for the examination of vows, ”asserts the ministry. He therefore asks the discontented to "trust the higher education teachers who have had to manage the consequences of Covid-19 in their teaching and are able to appreciate the completely inappropriate nature of such assessments".
But, in this case, why not have given a national framework as soon as the hybrid is set up, in the fall? "It is not desirable that a national instruction can be applied uniformly without taking into account the diversity of the terrain, the situations of the establishments - buildings, number of students, boarders […]", continues Jean's entourage. -Michel Blanquer. Finally, what will happen to the face-to-face re-entry of middle and high schools on May 3? The principals are responsible for preparing "an educational continuity plan" based on the hybrid, always to avoid mixing ... but "certainly taking into account the specificities of the classes to be examined".
