“Because of her I missed (sic) the writing of the French baccalaureate.”
On June 16, the writer Sylvie Germain received a torrent of insults on the social network Twitter while high school students had to work, during the baccalaureate French test, on an extract from her book
Jours de anger
(Gallimard ).
This work, which describes the life of nine brothers raised in the forests of Morvan, was then considered too complex by many candidates.
“It is serious that pupils who arrive towards the end of their schooling can show so much immaturity, and hatred of the language, of the effort (…) The vocabulary was accessible, but some are satisfied with a vocabulary so reduced, that everything written a little elaborate is a challenge to them, an outrage”
, she answered in an interview given to
Figaro
.
The words considered complex as "alleys" and "secular" had even been clarified...
Some students seem to no longer have the level to understand a somewhat demanding text.
However…
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