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Sensitive subject. The ecological presidential candidate, Yannick Jadot, does not rule out “reducing the duration of school holidays” and “reviewing the service obligations of teachers”, in an interview with La Croix published on Wednesday evening. According to the MEP, “it is necessary to better articulate and balance basic knowledge during the day (reading, writing, counting) and devote more time to practical knowledge, nature, culture, sports, manual work”.
For the EELV candidate, “this means looking at the contours of the year. I do not rule out reducing the length of holidays, especially that of the summer holidays, and therefore reviewing the service obligations of teachers”. “All the countries that obtain better school results than us have fewer school holidays,” he argues. But it will be up to the “consensus conference”, which he intends to set up, and “to collective negotiations, to define the terms”, adds the ecologist.
Hire teachers and raise salaries
“This meeting – which will be accompanied by job creation and salary increases – should make it possible to repair the institution”, he adds. The ecologist specifies that he does not want to “reduce the share of fundamental knowledge” but “better distribute them over a longer annual school time”. “I intend to reintroduce maths and to introduce life and earth sciences as subjects in their own right in the common core in first and last year”, he continues, in order to “counter the effects of the school reform, which resulted in a decline in scientific vocations, especially among girls”.
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Finally, the candidate, who also wants to recruit 65,000 more teachers and increase their salaries by 20%, intends to “leave permanent rating”. “By favoring competition over cooperation, we exert such pressure on students that they have the impression of playing their academic success on each note, of passing Sciences Po’s great oral each time they speak”, deplores- he.