2023-07-21 10:30:07
I would have liked so much, a few days ago, that dozens of organizations of the educational community of our country found the arguments to appeal to the maintenance of Pap Ndiaye at the Ministry of National Education. I would have added my voice to it, as I did for Isabelle Rome, the former minister responsible for equality between women and men. Because I deeply believe that certain public policies should escape an excess of politicization, be protected in the long term by a form of national consensus around a few major priorities, under the watchful eye of the actors and major organizations representing the sector. It requires many conditions, respect, work, courage, but I believe it is possible and desirable.
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Women’s rights are part of these public policies, of course, but so is education. I said it when I left my ministerial functions in 2017, I said it again when Pap Ndiaye was appointed. I had supported him, without excessive illusions about his chances of success, because I esteem the man, the historian, the intellectual, the citizen committed against racism, anti-Semitism, discrimination and therefore against the far right. I do not regret it.
Small cowardice of Bercy and Matignon
What I regret are these long months that have passed without a real reversal of the course of things as they had been triggered during the first five-year term of Emmanuel Macron, with Jean-Michel Blanquer. Yet that was the meaning of his appointment, otherwise why change? Was it not possible to follow through on presidential promises on teacher compensation, rather than covering up the small cowardice of Bercy and Matignon? Wasn’t it possible to take a few risks to promote social diversity at school knowing that it would be supported by the overwhelming majority of the educational community? Was it not possible, at the very least, to oppose a firmer resistance to the absurd attacks based on fantasies on wokism, decolonialism, deconstruction or intersectionality which we know that they feed, at bottom, the fights of the far right against feminism, freedom of thought or anti-racism?
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We would like to think so, and blame the outgoing minister for clearing his conscience. But the last few weeks have unfortunately shown that Pap Ndiaye was above all a lonely man, in a government and a majority that had no regard for what he represents, what he embodies and even what he may think or say. If only to take its minimum share of freedom in order to denounce the obvious: that the extreme right is seizing, little by little, the media and the counter-powers of this country. This loneliness in the colors of betrayal that he must have felt during these days without the slightest support may have lifted his last illusions about the political camp he had joined. Above all, she proved that in reality, no, he could not have done better.
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