*Frédéric Douet is a professor at Rouen-Normandie University and a member of the Council for Compulsory Deductions.
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Inspired by an article in the newspaper
Le
Monde
entitled "In Paris, the prospect of majority private education at college entry, source of new political tensions", Thomas Piketty commented: "
In France, we have succeeded in inventing the absolute school segregation, all organized and financed by the public authorities, in good conscience, and in the name of “freedom of education”, as it should be.
When do we start to change things
?
".
However, both the method and the finding are flawed.
The uneasiness comes from the fact that the wholesale massacre of the public sector for several decades is a social crime.
All parents are aware of this
With regard to the method, it is in reality only an abusive generalization, that is to say a form of sophism allowing a general conclusion to be drawn cheaply on the basis of a sample too limited to be relevant.
The cited article puts into perspective the projection in 2034 of the social composition of sixth-form colleges…
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