My pace or politics, what to choose?
YES to sensible reform, NO to rushed and botched reform
The Minister of National Education has just finished his speech on the school reform on France Inter (What rhythms at school for our children ?).
He has, one more time, ignores the demands and demands of the French people.
Ignores staff testimonials : teacher, municipal, territorial which, them, know… in any case, better than him. Because these men and women are on the ground, in the midst of children, in classes, in the refectory, at the morning and evening reception, with children, while they are playing, study, reflect, eat, and for the little ones, pee ... They're there because they like, for the majority, their profession.
Our Minister dares to say that some think only of their personal interest ...
Is, we agree : a tiny minority people do not care about the tiredness of children at school preferring to keep their two weekend days by crossing out Saturday morning as an opportunity to go 2 or 3 hours at school (would rather be for : traders, some teachers and parents; would rather be against : blended families whose situation is sometimes difficult and parents who prefer to keep their weekends.)
More, as Vincent Peillon puts it so well: "Let's put the child back at the center of the debate ! ».
Therefore, why Monsieur Peillon, do not take the time to listen to what parents, childhood professionals, teachers, the Atsem, the animators advise him : they invite him, they encourage him, they implore him to take the time to reflect by putting the word on the table CHILD, and then, to make the various actors in his education shine around him.
In other countries
It’s very pretty and it’s serious to compare the way other countries organize themselves around school, but it’s often irrelevant. Other nations don't have the same story, the same culture, the same rhythm.
Compare what is comparable:
- In a country like Germany, where women are encouraged to stay at home because child care is rare, it is easier to go to school only in the morning. The mother is more easily present with the child when he has no activities or afternoon classes (a striking example: “most German schools don't even have a canteen”; in The World of 25 May 2010 on the subject)
In France, where both women and men work, the free afternoon is much less easy to manage.
- In Nordic countries, where society is more articulated on the rhythm of the child and whose school system places a strong emphasis on the function of integrating the school, it is easier to make changes in education and its rhythms.
In France, where work (or unemployment) is king, parity has been established and children are entrusted to specialized structures (crèches, schools, educators and animators…)
(To know + on school in Europe, some figures on what site)
Who will pay?
The Minister "recommends, recommends that local authorities make extracurricular activities free […] because that is not compulsory education.”
“The French state gives money to finance extracurricular activities…”
For how long? How high? Under what conditions?
The municipalities should be paid to implement the decisions on the educational reform of the left?
And what does: “The state abounds in local government money?” said the same Minister of Education, Vincent Peillon, this morning on the air.
No answer on the question of quality of the activities implemented…
Vincent Peillon on France Inter, the 04/11/2013
Contempt and irony on the part of Vincent Peillon
It’s heresy.
There is really no contempt on the part of our leaders towards those who are concerned with this problem.?
Minister Says This Reform Will Cost No Parents? He alludes to a certain instrumentalization on the part of his detractors… But let us be told who is ready and willing to pay the euros needed for this reform.
who can give his time voluntarily to educate, introduce our children to the theater, to the music, to the drawing, to sports, manual and artistic activities? (Many associations have heard requests, from the municipalities, if they could intervene for free in the school, but outside school hours!)
Because, Mr. Vincent Peillon, WHO must pay if government doesn't ? And if the state does not have the means to do so, how could other potential funders (municipalities among others)?
WHO, in these times of crisis, can pay competent facilitators and educators ? Therein lies the whole problem, the gap between the lyrics, the promises and real actions to be put in place!
Media calendar
You claim, facing Patrick Cohen on France Inter this morning (radio station I'm asking: why this interview with the Minister of National Education takes place back to school monday? At this hour of listening where the main interested, can't hear!), you claim that ATSEM (Specialized Territorial Agent for Nursery Schools) started caring for children in the morning and evening after school, at this return 2012/2013. Do you know that they charge (it’s essentially a female job) extracurricular reception for a long time, morning, noon and night, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. ? Did you know ? They didn't wait for you, with all due respect! And they have, indeed, need a specialized relay.
Disappointment, but hopes, of a mom, teacher, and independent reporter
Your speech, this morning on France Inter, deeply disappointed me : I am a teacher, hostess, educator, parent and independent reporter in my spare time.
These minutes spent writing to you via this article will not be wasted and lost if you take them into account.
I will have at least tried to persuade you, you and your team:
– From take more time to listen carefully to the people who are in the field of children and with them : the educational community notes and takes note (for example, that their kids can't stand getting up one more morning to go to school, if their days are not reduced in a coherent way),
– From take more time to listen to people who tell you that their students are pressurized enough not to add more
– From take more time and avoid going straight to the wall, by allowing the right to take over the reins of the hands by gaussant: she could reproach you for not having carefully thought through this reform.
– To take more time WITH all the people in the field who know, they.
“Not everything is done in a month, especially the major reforms” says Vincent Peillon, not everything is done in a few months either.
French National Education is going badly
This decision to change the school, its rhythms, its operation in depth, you have already started it. All persons supposed and affected or not directly agree : the world of education in France is going badly and it gets worse and worse every year, but they will follow you if you allow them to express themselves. Everyone could think about it, now is the time to synthesize WITH THEM the fruit of their collaboration.
You must wait for the information to flow and take into account each opinion and comment based on the current experience of CHILDREN, students, adults in the making : our children.
It was time to reform the institution of education, to make it evolve… but, please, in the right direction.
We are not puppets who are made to believe no matter what!
The reform of school rates 2013 will only be significant and meaningful only by profoundly revolutionizing the relationships between school activities, extracurricular and vacations. Children are not pawns that are moved according to the studies that follow one another and that are not alike.
I will resume here, an article from World, by the voice of Bernard Gauducheau " A reform of school time must be carefully considered and not give in to the sirens of media debates and the excesses of controversy. It must contribute to the right balance between the rhythm of the child., the distribution of vacations over the year, parental constraints, free time for families, educational content and the contribution of extracurricular activities of town halls and associations. Until we find a real consensus, let's keep the four-day week to learn concrete lessons while preparing for a real reform. »
Valérie Doulevant
