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Education: Nicole Belloubet confirms the creation of level groups in middle school

2024-02-18T16:21:13.444Z

Highlights: Students will be divided into three groups: "good", "average" and "bad" The decision was made to avoid the problem of having too many students in the same class at the same time. The new system will be implemented from the start of the 2015-16 school year. It will be the first time in the history of the country that such a system has been put in place. The move was made in response to a request from the Ministry of Education, which had been in charge of the project since the 1980s.


To avoid stigmatization, the new education minister, however, refuses to talk about “good” or “bad” students.


The teaching unions only think

“badly” of

it , the level groups will nevertheless be established in college, confirmed Nicole Belloubet, new Minister of Education to BFMTV on Sunday February 18.

The reform promised by his predecessor Gabriel Attal should come into force at the start of the school year.

Instead of expecting their students to progress at the same pace, which is rarely achieved, 6th and 5th grade French and mathematics teachers will have to distinguish three groups in their class.

Logic would dictate that one is made up of the

“good”

, the other of the

“average”

, the third of the

“bad”

.

But on BFMTV, Nicole Belloubet was careful when discussing the distribution criteria.

Knowing that, according to several studies carried out, the weakest students are also the poorest and that opponents of the project fear this double "

stigma

", she said she refused to carry out a

"social sorting"

.

“Bringing is what makes our nation (...) it’s also what makes our school.”

For her, this “social sorting” will be avoided since from one subject to another, students will not necessarily be placed in the same group.

You can shine in math and struggle in French.

And, insisted Nicole Belloubet, in disciplines other than these two

“fundamental knowledge”

, the classes will remain

“heterogeneous”

.

The minister also assured our colleagues that the recruitment of 2,000 teachers, including many contract workers, necessary for the implementation of the reform, was underway.

Source: lefigaro

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