“I take with me, to Matignon, the cause of the school.
» Word to the wise, Gabriel Attal had warned in his speech upon taking office: he, Prime Minister, did not intend to let go of the subject of National Education, of which he was responsible before being appointed rue de Varenne.
Time for practical work: in search of oxygen after weeks struggling with the agricultural crisis, he will devote a large part of this week to his previous file.
Even if it means stepping on the toes of his minister, Nicole Belloubet, appointed just a month ago.
Because his program has all the makings of a media offensive.
On Monday, Gabriel Attal will chair the annual day of tribute to the victims of terrorism in Arras (Pas-de-Calais), where a teacher, Dominique Bernard, was killed five months ago by a radicalized former student.
He also planned to express his views on secularism, authority or fundamental knowledge in the press.
And then, on Thursday, to exchange by video with school heads and to devote another trip to the “shock of knowledge” — the “opportunity to remind that the level groups
(in maths and French in middle school)
will be put in place,” according to those around him.
Gabriel Attal carried this system as Minister of Education.
This is even the biggest part of his assessment after only six months spent behind Jean Zay's desk.
A “marker”, as they say in politics.
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