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End of the selection at Henri-IV and Louis-le-Grand: the Affelnet software at the heart of the critics

2022-02-13T20:24:26.523Z


The policy of social and academic diversity, launched last year by the Paris Academy, is under fire from critics.


Tribunes of parents of students, teachers, personalities... Since the announcement, on January 24, of the entry of the Parisian high schools Louis-le-Grand and Henri-IV, symbols of excellence and republican meritocracy, in the algorithmic world of Affelnet, this software for assigning middle school students to high school, criticism is aplenty.

Finished, for the Parisian pupils, the selection on file which allowed, according to the partisans of the current system, to locate the most brilliant profiles, and sometimes atypical, in sciences or letters, pushed and recommended by their professors.

Faced with discontent, the rectorate of Paris has already acted on the principle of "quotas" to reduce the weight of the famous "social positioning index" (IPS), which allows a student from a disadvantaged college to earn points.

But he has yet to set the rates for the 2022 procedure.

A "big unsaid"

Last Thursday, the parents of students elected to the board of directors of Henri-IV - of the FCPE, marked on the left, at the Peep, ranked at…

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Source: lefigaro

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