A specialist in the history of school policies, Claude Lelièvre is notably the author of "Jules Ferry: la République educatrice" (Hachette education, 1999) and "True stories of violence at school" (Fayard, 2007), co-written with Francis Lec
.
Emmanuel Macron's desire to make school compulsory from the age of 3 surprised.
The Jules Ferry law of March 28, 1882, which simultaneously established the
“obligation of instruction”
and the
“secularism”
of public primary schools, did not make attending a school compulsory.
This law, which makes education compulsory for children of both sexes, specifies that it can be given
"in public schools or private schools, or even in the family"
.
And that has been the basic principle until today.
If the Republicans took over the public primary school, it was - as they said at the time - to "make Republicans";
very important task for them because they considered that it was above all
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