Valls published a platform to defend the reform of college … and … – Le Point

Manuel Valls defends the college reform “carried with courage and sense of dialogue by Najat Vallaud-Belkacem,” his Minister National Education, in an article published Sunday on the site Libération.fr. Prime Minister from a report: “International studies show beyond doubt (our school) has become one of the most unequal in Europe That is to say it advances down its. original promise. ” “It therefore had to act,” he says.

“Our school is no longer a bulwark against it should be social reproduction the contrary. It encourages, it manufactures failure, exclusion And so despair. . That is why the president decided to overhaul the school, “he explains. “The reform of college is a new stage It is worn with courage and sense of dialogue by Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, the first woman Minister of Education She knows what she’s talking -.. To be an example – when she defends a motor school social climbing “, he writes about his minister, subject to numerous attacks on the right.

“The school, this common good”

“Many untruths have been said about this reform,” he laments. “When we allow 100% of students to learn a second living language from the 5th – against today 16% of students in dual language classes and 11% in European classes, when democratizes access Latin and Greek; when one allows all students, including the most fragile, the most timid, to gain confidence and progress, pulling all schoolchildren up So we are faithful in the school. of the Republic, “he says.

” I listen to the critics. They surprise me (…) The debate is not between elitism and egalitarianism It is between those who think that some can only succeed if we condemn some of our children to fail, and those who think that all can. – and deserve – to succeed Between one. conservative vision of the school, and truly national vision, at once demanding, meritocratic and generous. ” “I invite, rather than using the school – common good – for partisan purposes, to find ourselves on the essential: our children’s interest is the only thing that should count.” Concludes -it.