An unprecedented exercise, simultaneously on YouTube and TikTok. Emmanuel Macron answered, this Monday, September 4, questions from youtubeur HugoDécrypte as part of the start of the school year. The main points to remember.
The Head of State declared that he was in favor of “experiments” and an “evaluation” of the wearing of the uniform at school, pronouncing himself on his side rather for a “unique outfit”, which he considers “a lot more acceptable to teenagers.
“It settles a lot of subjects (…): [first] secularism and [secondly] a little the idea that we have of decency, that is to say that we do not want outfits too eccentric,” he added.
The President also referred to the terrorist attacks and the assassination of Samuel Paty to explain the context of the government’s decision to ban the abaya in schools. “We also live in our society with a minority, people who, hijacking a religion, come to challenge the Republic and secularism,” said the head of state.
“It sometimes got worse. We can’t act as if there hadn’t been a terrorist attack and Samuel Paty,” he said, referring to the teacher from Conflans-Sainte-Honorine who was murdered on October 16, 2020, some days after showing his students caricatures of Muhammad as part of a lesson on freedom of expression. “I’m just saying: this system is there,” continued Emmanuel Macron. “It happened because a teacher was learning about secularism in his class and then there was this runaway with social media and people who then did the worst.”
Relaunched by the journalist, Emmanuel Macron declared: “I make no parallel” between the acts of terrorism and the outfit worn by young Muslim girls. “I’m just telling you that the issue of secularism in our school is a deep issue.”
In the same interview, Emmanuel Macron set the goal of seeing all middle school students in France plant a tree, starting this year with sixth-grade students. “I want us to have students planting trees from sixth grade this year,” said the head of state.
He felt that this would not be possible “for all of the sixth graders” this year, but hoped that we would eventually have “this generation where each college student will have planted his tree”, to “help” to meet the objective. one billion trees planted in ten years.
The Head of State, who will visit a college in Orthez (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) on Tuesday to focus on strengthening the place of sport in school, stressed how “when you play sport we’re fine.” The executive wants to generalize the practice of 30 minutes of physical activity a day in primary schools and two more hours in college. “It’s a great tool for learning better”, “it’s a health tool, it prevents obesity”, “it gives a framework”, he said.
Emmanuel Macron even wants to bring sports at school to one hour a day, and “at least as much in college”. He announced in passing a “sports evaluation test” in sixth grade.
Returning to another fetish subject, the duration of the summer holidays and school time, he again said he was open to a debate, in consultation. Emmanuel Macron had already raised these issues in the major interview he gave to Le Point on August 23. We need to “have school time that is more flexible and that, because we have more weeks of school, middle school and high school in the year, can integrate sports, arts education and culture and time for homework and accompaniment,” he sketched.
In the field of leisure, he also said he was in favor of the introduction of a train package of the type set up in Germany which allows, for 49 euros per month, unlimited travel on the entire rail network. . “I asked the Minister of Transport (Clément Beaune) to launch with all the regions that are ready to do so the same device”, he confirmed.
