2023-09-04 04:40:15
Some 12 million students will have to turn the page on vacation this Monday. They are indeed returning to school during a 2023-2024 school year where teacher shortages, despite the executive’s promise of a teacher in front of each class, are overshadowed in the media by the ban on abaya.
Some 6.4 million schoolchildren, 3.4 million college students and 2.2 million high school students are therefore expected in the classes. Arrived in July rue de Grenelle, Gabriel Attal made his first comeback in the costume of Minister of National Education. From the purchase price of school supplies to the weight of the schoolbag that he wants to see halved as he declared on Sunday evening on M6, he has multiplied the announcements with the desire to seize “concrete” subjects.
A return to school dominated in the media by the abaya
Unsurprisingly, however, it was the controversial ban on the abaya, a long traditional dress covering the body, which dominated the back-to-school in the media. It is the entire executive who, in the name of the defense of secularism, called for “uniting” on this ban which also applies to the wearing of qamis, the male version of this garment.
As provided for by the 2004 law prohibiting the wearing of conspicuous religious symbols, recalcitrant pupils will be welcomed by the establishment but not in class and a phase of dialogue will open up between the family and National Education.
In the wake of Emmanuel Macron who decided to make school “his reserved domain”, the government, two months after the riots, wishes to embody a line of firmness in educational matters: on secularism or the fundamental knowledge on which Gabriel Attal wants to “put the package”. However, if the heads of establishments welcomed the ban, many teachers consider that the question of the abaya “should not hide the real problems on the ground”.
The executive wants to fight against harassment
This start of the 2023 school year will indeed take place again under tension due to a crisis in the recruitment of teachers – a phenomenon which is not new but which has increased since last year – with this year more than 3,100 non-working positions. provided for teacher competitions in the country. According to a survey by the SE-Unsa union, conducted among 2,000 people, 68% of teachers questioned also say they fear for the start of the school year that there is a lack of staff.
On Monday, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne and Gabriel Attal, who will travel to Ille-et-Vilaine to the Amandine-Mallet school in Saint-Germain-sur-Ille and to the Simone-Veil general and technological high school in Liffré, will discuss the strengthening of fundamentals in mathematics and reading but also the famous pact supposed to offer “better recognition of the commitment of teachers”.
The fight against bullying will also be another priority this school year. A new plan will be unveiled by the end of September.
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