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FigaroVox week: "Level of French schoolchildren in spelling: silence, we sink"

2022-12-09T21:03:30.888Z


Find every Saturday the selection of FigaroVox: decryptions, points of view and controversies. Dear subscribers, Study after study, ranking after ranking, year after year, the trend is confirmed: the level of our students is in free fall. But this time, it is the National Education itself which comes to support this observation. According to a study published Tuesday, December 6 by the statistical service of the Ministry of Education (Depp), pupils at the end of elementary school today mak


Dear subscribers,

Study after study, ranking after ranking, year after year, the trend is confirmed: the level of our students is in free fall.

But this time, it is the National Education itself which comes to support this observation.

According to a study published Tuesday, December 6 by the statistical service of the Ministry of Education (Depp), pupils at the end of elementary school today make twice as many mistakes as their parents at the same age, on the same dictated.

On reading this edifying report, we discover, among other things, that today less than one out of two pupils correctly writes the word "asked" in the sentence: "Dad and mom were wondering" or that the agreement of the The adjective "worried" about dictation goes from 46.2% success in 1987 to 25.3% in 2021.

The columnists of Le

Figaro

have long sounded the alarm on the state of disrepair in which our school finds itself and pleads for us to return to basic knowledge.

Alas, the ministers pass...

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Source: lefigaro

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