Will Gabriel Attal return to the “taboo of repeating a year” at school?

2023-12-05 03:31:35

When he tells his visitors how the issue of repeating students found itself in the public arena, Gabriel Attal explains that he was trapped. It was on November 22, during a round table with city councilors, during the last Congress of Mayors of France. Questioned about the decline in the level of French students, the Minister of National Education then suggested that we “need to review” the “taboo of repeating a year”, estimating that “a student who enters 6th grade without knowing how to read or count, is “It’s almost abuse.”