Gabriel Attal told AFP on Wednesday that the level group would be
“the rule”
for
“at least three quarters of the year”
, and the class
“the exception”
, for the teaching of mathematics and French. in sixth and fifth grade next year, as part of the
“shock of knowledge”
reform .
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There will be
“three groups according to the level of difficulty of the students, with one objective: that we can take stock of the level of the students
,” he added, two days before the publication of the official texts on Friday.
“I think that for at least three quarters of the year, students must follow their lessons in French and mathematics in the level groups.
So the rule is the group, and the exception, very regulated, is the class
,” clarified the head of government.
The Minister of Education Nicole Belloubet spoke last week of a
“certain flexibility”
in the implementation next year in 6th and 5th grade of these groups, which she preferred to describe as
“need groups”
.
She discussed the possibility of
“bringing students together as a whole class”
at certain times.
The teaching unions were particularly pleased that the minister did not use the expression
“level groups”
, seeing it as a change in the implementation of this reform.
A secularism under threat
In his interview, Gabriel Attal also returned to the question of secularism at school.
For him, secularism is
“today more than ever threatened”.
He thus promises the establishment of
“pedagogical support units”
to help teachers faced with
“resistance, even challenges”
to their teaching.
“Secularism is threatened. It is probably today more than ever. She has her enemies, they are political, religious. But it also has its defenders: our teachers, our civil servants, our law enforcement
,” declared the Prime Minister, two days before the 20th anniversary of the 2004 law against the wearing of uniforms or signs. ostentatious religious figures at school.