The new Minister of National Education, Nicole Belloubet, hoped, Friday February 9, for the establishment “very quickly of a dialogue” with teachers, during the transfer of power with Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, who remained twenty-eight days Rue de Grenelle.
The minister said she was going “towards the actors of national education in a spirit of dialogue and listening and with the firm desire to develop our education system”, ensuring that she “continues the implementation” measures recently announced by Emmanuel Macron and Gabriel Attal.
Among them, the application from the next school year of the “shock of knowledge” reforms, including the creation of level groups in French and mathematics. This project upsets secondary school teachers, who demonstrated on February 1 and promised to go on strike again when they return from the winter holidays.
“You can count on my commitment.”
After four weeks marked by a succession of controversies concerning Ms. Oudéa-Castéra, Ms. Belloubet promised teachers to renew the dialogue. “I’ll get to it next week. You can count on my commitment,” she said.
Referring to the future projects that await her, Ms. Belloubet, aged 68, wanted to “do everything to put in place a system which contributes to reducing social inequalities, which refuses any social sorting and which does not exclude students by failure.” She also cited “the values of respect and authority.”
Ms. Oudéa-Castéra assured that she was leaving the Ministry of National Education “more seasoned than ever” and with “head held high”. “I thank the President of the Republic and the Prime Minister for their renewed confidence in allowing me (…) to continue my mission in the service of sport and the Olympic and Paralympic Games,” she added.