Home school wall

Every day at 7 pm, find “Behind the scenes”, our column on the underside of political life.

Since Tuesday, the text of the separatism bill has been in the hands of the Council of State.

And we got wind of a first warning signal.

There was heated debate over the article banning homeschooling.

Recall that the measure, announced by Emmanuel Macron during the Mureaux speech at the beginning of October, aims to ban teaching outside schools, to fight against the abuses observed in some families under the influence of Islamism.

Lawyers from the Council of State considered that this posed significant constitutional problems and that the impact study carried out by the government was insufficient.

This does not predict the opinion that will

render

the board next Thursday but it's an alert.

Red.

Because if this long-awaited and politically strategic text were to end up being retested by the Constitutional Council, it would be a heavy defeat for the president.

First, it would give the feeling of the state's powerlessness in the face of Islamism, a catastrophic image in the perspective of the major elections to come.

Then, it would be a personal setback for Emmanuel Macron because it was he who asked his ministers to add this measure to the text.

Jean-Michel Blanquer, who dared not dream of it, was surprised when the president had ordered him to go this far.

Problem: Many parents, who have nothing to do with political Islam, are attached to home education.

And they are making themselves heard.

To the point that some ministers, worried, raised the subject recently with the Head of State who does not intend to move on it.

He replied, with the air of one who makes it a matter of principle that for him, in France, "we go to school".