Emmanuel Macron wants students “who need it” to be able to return to school “from August 20” to “catch up”, and believes that “adjustments” are needed on the bac calendar because some tests are too “early in the year”, in an interview with Le Point published on Wednesday evening.

“There are too many vacations, and days that are too busy. The students that we will have assessed, and who will need them, we have to be able to get them back from August 20 to allow them to catch up and we We have to win back the month of June for students who do not take tests at the end of the year,” said the President of the Republic in this interview.

The Head of State had asked his government at the end of June to work on an overhaul of summer holidays and school time over the year, without setting a timetable at this stage, after a visit to Marseille during which he had expressed its desire to “reopen the debate” on this subject.

Emmanuel Macron also believes in this interview that the baccalaureate exams, which started for the first time in 2023 in March, cannot be held “so early in the year”.

“The minister in the next few days will announce the adjustments we will decide on this,” he added.

Adjustments to the new formula baccalaureate calendar have been expected for several weeks, after numerous criticisms from unions and parents of students on the holding of specialty tests in March, resulting in absenteeism and demotivation of some students in the last quarter. . The new Minister of Education Gabriel Attal has indicated that he will make announcements before the start of the school year on this subject.

Emmanuel Macron also says in this interview that he wants to overhaul the school programs of history and civic education, while strengthening “teacher training” in these two subjects.

“History must be taught chronologically and civic education must become an essential subject. Each week, a great fundamental text on our values ??will be read in each class and then debated”, specified the Head of State.

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08/23/2023 19:37:26 –         Paris (AFP) –         © 2023 AFP