You might say that action and undoing are always successful. Yesterday, the Minister of National Education’s announcement of the return of compulsory mathematics education for all high school students from the first grade at the beginning of the 2023 academic year was surprising. Not on this wise decision of Pape Ndiaye, three years after one of the most controversial measures to reform the Blanquer secondary school, named after the former Minister of National Education at the time, Jean-Michel Blanquer, which provided for its removal from the common core. But rather than having a large part of the educational community through researchers and political dissidents have already sounded the alarm before the reform was implemented on this great risk of high school students dropping out on this topic. There is also the risk that in the coming years there will be no pool of scientists that France, Europe and the world desperately need. But in the previous five-year period, with a large majority, the government and Emmanuel Macron I thought they had planted science. This form of arrogance towards everything that didn’t come from their circle of thought… finally after they noticed a sharp drop in the number of students in mathematics in their senior year. Particularly glaring dropout among high school girls, and the inequality caused by this reform. A report prepared by experts a few months ago calls for a reintroduction of mathematics into the common core. Not to mention, as stated in the ministry’s press release on Sunday, the impressive figure. 25% of the pupils who do not have the expected level in mathematics at the end of the third grade “It is already time” Reconciling all pupils with female athletes and promoting equality between girls and boys It remains to be seen how long it will take now to catch up to this stupidity… As writer Gilbert Cesbrun said: “ Only fools don’t change, as fools say when they change. »
Abdul Samari
Abdul Samari
