Does dropping out of school really only concern 4% of students, as Jean-Michel Blanquer says?

THE QUESTION. " Every child who does not go to school is a failure " for National Education " and each child who goes to school is a success ", declared the Minister of Education Jean-Michel Blanquer recognizing that the National Education had lost contact with 4% of students on average at the end of confinement - against 8% at the start - or about 500,000 people out of 12 million. Does he not underestimate the effect of this lack of school?

CHECK. The figure of 4% of dropouts, regularly advanced by the Minister, is an average, corresponding to students who have completely disappeared. Students who do not answer any phone call, email, or solicitation and do not give any homework. A very restrictive definition of " dropping out ", therefore. It does not take into account children who have semi-dropped out, those who follow, as a tourist, a course here and there but do not give homework, nor those who have vaguely responded to their teachers at the start

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