"Cancellation of bac exams: a decision without precedent in our history"

A specialist in the history of school policies, Claude Lelièvre is notably the author of “Jules Ferry. The Educating Republic ”(Hachette Éducation, 1999), from“ Compulsory school: what for? ” (Retz, 2004) and “True stories of school violence” (Fayard, 2007), co-written with Francis Lec.

It has often been asserted by many in the still very recent past that the final baccalaureate exams are essential for equal treatment and value in a national framework. And they constitute a sort of secular liturgy, a French tradition of more than two centuries.

However, because of the health crisis that we are facing, the Minister of National Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer, has just announced the virtual disappearance of the final exams for the 2020 baccalaureate and the hegemony of continuous monitoring which, until then, had only a completely marginal role.

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Certainly, our situation is unprecedented and it may be opportune, to get through a period where we

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