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"French companies must contribute to the renewal of education in abandoned territories"

2023-01-11T17:20:07.106Z


FIGAROVOX / TRIBUNE - In this collective text, three entrepreneurs explain the reasons why they support the project deployed by Espérance suburbs for 10 years in difficult neighborhoods and call on companies to invest in these schools.


Laurent Vronski is CEO of Ervoe, Nordine Hachemi is CEO of Kaufman & Broad, Marie Saltiel is CEO of Amplegest, and Sophie le Tanneur is a corporate director.

Only 60% of children in priority neighborhoods can read correctly in first grade in 2022;

Only 50% of these young people obtain their certificate in ninth grade and more than 40% are unemployed once they become adults.

Espérance suburbs is located in towns where the need to act is crying out: in Mantes-la-Jolie, Roubaix and Argenteuil, the number of jobless people in the 16 to 25 age bracket fluctuates between 21% and 45%.

Already in difficulty in terms of education compared to other developed countries, France seems to be doing even less well for equal opportunities.

This very palpable reality hampers the success of the less fortunate from birth.

The reasons for this educational gap are well known.

In addition to the family and socio-cultural context, France struggles to promote the teaching profession.

It would have missed 4,000 a few days before the start of the 2022 school year, a good part of which in establishments in “priority” districts, precisely where efforts should be multiplied.

It would be interesting to take inspiration from the innovation tracks applied by Espérance suburbs since 2012 in the neighbourhoods.

This educational and social project, launched by an entrepreneur, Éric Mestrallet, aims to transmit to young people the fundamentals, both in terms of know-how and life skills, so that they can flourish and then invest in the French society.

This entrepreneurial project is now a network of 17 "first chance schools", where from kindergarten, the teaching team wants to make academic success and give positive prospects to young people who are often disadvantaged, but also mobilize around them to create value and cohesion in the territories around these schools.

New ranks are opening and several new cities are under consideration.

Bordeaux,

Espérance suburbs is also committed to transmitting French codes and culture to these future citizens to make them men and women who are proud of their country and easily employable.

Laurent Vronski, Nordine Hachemi, Marie Saltiel.

The school is the first society where young people build their personality and the place to learn about social life.

In the 17 primary and secondary establishments labeled by Espérance suburbs, all financed today by private donations from individuals and foundations, teaching mixes common sense and high standards.

These principles also respond perfectly to those of the "School of the future" called for by President Emmanuel Macron in 2021. These establishments demonstrate on the one hand academic rigor, instead of leveling down, and on the other hand educate the pupils by teaching them respect and consideration vis-à-vis their comrades as well as teachers.

We should also note in passing that the network has no problem with motivation or recruitment.

At last,

Proof that there is no fatality in educational decline, it works, with supporting figures since 80% of young people at the end of CP have a satisfactory level in oral comprehension of the French language, against 71% in REP.

And third, 75% have their college patent, when it comes to 50% in REP.

French companies, which are already very numerous in financing the Espérance suburbs network, would have every interest in increasing this support by calling on public players to join them.

Anchored in their territory, they are well aware of the challenge of training and supporting young people upstream, so that they can reveal their talent and succeed in their integration and their professional project.

We each support a school of the network to deploy on its territory.

There are never enough of us when it comes to the future of young people and investing in their adult life because this future is built together!

Source: lefigaro

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