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One day reviled, the next day consecrated, dictation resists

2023-01-11T19:14:25.055Z


DECRYPTION - The Minister of National Education Pap Ndiaye decreed that the exercise would be daily in CM1 and CM2. A way to compensate for the drop in spelling level.


The eternal return of “

daily dictation

”.

Like Najat Vallaud-


Belkacem in 2015 and Jean-Michel Blanquer in 2017, the Minister of National Education, Pap Ndiaye, calls for the sacrosanct exercise.

It will be daily in CM1 and CM2, where "

at least two hours a day

" will also be devoted to writing and reading, according to a circular published on Thursday.

A way for Pap Ndiaye, as for his predecessors, to touch public opinion in the heart, by resonating the memories of schoolchildren as well as an imagination.

The function of dictation is to reassure public opinion.

And to bring to life a fantasy according to which spelling is a major requirement of the Republic for the people

, ”observes Claude Lelièvre, historian of education.

However, it was under the July Monarchy, with the generalization of normal primary schools for boys in 1833, that spelling became the queen discipline in the training of students.

And above all, the teacher selection tool, with…

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Source: lefigaro

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