“It’s a subject that leaves no one indifferent but I didn’t expect it to take on this magnitude,” she admits.
On the way to the restaurant where we found her, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem confided that she was stopped by two people who had come to thank her for raising the debate on the daily exposure of French people to screens.
In a column in Le Figaro published on March 18, she proposed nothing less than rationing the Internet to three gigabytes per week to “detoxify” French people addicted to social networks, of which she acknowledges being one.
Comments and criticisms poured in.
Proof that the former star minister of the Hollande government (Women's Rights, Education), today general director of the NGO One France and president of France Terre d'Asile, still has a voice that carries.
Withdrawal from active politics since 2017, if we except an unfortunate regional campaign in Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes three years ago, “NVB” distils its ideas or its indignations at regular intervals.
This month, she published with the sociologist François Dubet “The School Ghetto.
To put an end to separatism” (Ed. du Seuil).
The work draws up a grim observation but also outlines solutions... praising in passing those implemented under his ministry for social diversity in colleges, which have had "positive" effects on the personal and social well-being of the students concerned. , according to a spring 2023 study.
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