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Baccalaureate: 50 years ago, the exam already questioned

2021-06-19T07:19:32.369Z


THE FIGARO ARCHIVES - In June 1971, when the final year students were preparing to take the baccalaureate, the usefulness of the test was already disputed.


In these troubled times, where uncertainty reigns, where the Covid calls our lifestyles into question, it is reassuring to know that some things are not changing.

In June, for example, the baccalaureate and its share of controversy.

Unfortunately, the emblematic examination, largely planed in 2021, would shine with its last fires.

Reduced this year to two tests, the rest in continuous control, the bac would be endangered analyzed

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last week.

Read also: Covid-19: are future high school graduates less good than their predecessors?

Should we abolish the baccalaureate?

Jean-Michel Blanquer and the Covid would therefore have succeeded in closing a debate perhaps as old as the diploma created under Napoleon.

In any case 50 years ago, on June 15, 1971,

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and the Association of University Journalists already asked two specialists: "

Should we abolish the baccalaureate?"

"

The first to respond is then Jacques Capelovici, English teacher at Lakanal high school in Sceaux.

The future "master Capello", well known to the viewers of the "8:00 pm Games" and "Numbers and Letters", severely judges

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