Agrégé of Modern Literature, former student of the École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud, Jean-Paul Brighelli is a teacher in Marseille, essayist and specialist in educational issues. He is notably the author of
The Cretin Factory
(ed. Jean-Claude Gawsewitch, 2005).
After shooting himself in the right foot by naming Amélie Oudéa-Castéra (but was it really his idea, or that of Emmanuel Macron?), Gabriel Attal shot himself another in the left foot by pointing to Nicole Belloubet to replace her.
A true left-wing woman to implement right-wing reforms.
We hesitate to applaud.
Certainly, the candidates are not rushing to occupy rue de Grenelle.
The idea of negotiating with Sophie Vénétitay, the general secretary of the SNES (National Union of Secondary Education), who in four weeks had taken the small measure of Oudéa-Castéra and today welcomes her confinement at the Ministry of Sports, cools more than one.
In this regard, entrusting Oudéa-Castéra with Education in addition to Sports once again showed the relevance of Laurence Peter's analyzes on the fatal accession to the maximum level of incompetence...
But why Nicole Belloubet?
A law specialist, university professor, former rector of the academies of Limoges and then Toulouse, she resigned in 2006 to protest against the thousands of job closures planned by François Fillon, which could put her at odds with the Attal's plan to eliminate... a few thousand positions at the start of the 2024 school year, to take into account the demographic decline.
She also taught at the IEP in this city — very “vertical” teaching, my sources tell me: I won’t blame her for that.
A priori, a generally presentable CV to access the position of Minister of National Education.
But for completeness, it should be noted that she joined the PS in 1983. Then she sat on the Constitutional Council between 2013 and 2017. And this is not without consequences.
It was also she who during the pandemic released several thousand so-called “end-of-sentence” prisoners in order to create distancing spaces in prisons.
Jean-Paul Brighelli
This is the second time that she finds herself second choice after François Bayrou.
In 2017, she replaced him at the Ministry of Justice, forgetting to declare all of his assets: a peccadillo.
She only distinguished herself at Place Vendôme in her renunciations, in particular in the Mila affair: we remember, this very young girl found herself threatened with death by the followers of the religion of peace and love for having “blasphemed”, an offense which does not exist in France: a Minister of Justice should have known this, and not have to be reframed by the Head of State.
Nicole Belloubet took the opportunity to show her compassion for the real victims, and to proclaim that insulting a religion is an attack on freedom of conscience.
Le Figaro
, had invited her to “reconsider her Law”, especially since Nicole Belloubet had also seen fit to speak out on an ongoing affair — the murder of Sarah Halimi.
This is inappropriate.
You can't know everything when you're a legal specialist.
It is also she who during the pandemic released several thousand prisoners said to be “at the end of their sentence” in order to create distancing spaces in prisons.
Concern for the health of detainees apparently came before that of personal safety.
Trifles, in truth, than all that... What is more embarrassing is that in 2016, under the reign of Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, Nicole Belloubet, who followed in those of the young minister, criticized "
the nonsense about the restoration of authority or the wearing of a blouse
.”
Enough to lead to legitimate suspicion about the trust placed in him by Gabriel Attal, despite his predictions: “
Nicole Belloubet will be able to carry the road map of the Ministry of National Education
” (France 2, February 8, 2024).
Sophie Vénétitay is already rolling up her trade unionist sleeves: “
It’s going to be a minister with her back to the wall
”, who arrives in a “moment of crisis”, she warned.
When you think about it, this executive couple's predilection for lame ducks and broken arms is fascinating.
Jean-Paul Brighelli
When you think about it, this executive couple's predilection for lame ducks and broken arms is fascinating.
Oudéa-Castéra knew nothing about the School - and proved it from his first intervention, woven with lies and gloubi-boulga.
Nicole Belloubet has beliefs that are the opposite of the “road map” written at the end of last year by Gabriel Attal himself.
What is the need to appoint a person who will inevitably surround himself with personalities who will have “progressive” ideas about teaching, repugnant to all elitism, in the name of an egalitarianism which has plunged into the abyss all students who are a little fragile or culturally disinherited?
Yes, more authority is needed — in fact, zero tolerance.
Yes, we must reorganize the single college - by giving total autonomy to establishments, and by finally authorizing parents to free themselves from the school map: they must be able to choose, based on the educational project, the teams which will educate their children.
Yes, we must completely rethink the training of teachers, favoring training modeled on the CPGE, far from the universities, which carry out research, and the "didacticians" who teach ignorance in the INSPE - ex-IUFM / ESPE.
It was Christophe Kerrero's project in Paris, before Oudéa-Castéra disavowed it.
Hey, it would have been an idea to appoint an experienced man to rue de Grenelle.
But this government apparently has no ideas.