It has been tested since 2019 in certain voluntary high schools. And the least we can say is that the Universal National Service (SNU) is far from being free from all reproaches.
While from the start of the 2026 school year the government wants to generalize the SNU in Secondary School, the Hérault federation of Free Thought recalls how this “cohesion stay” in connection with an Army service, an association or an administration, is civic and instructive only in name. “Unless there is a vocation, young people have nothing to do with the Army, which has nothing to do with the School. Interested young people can do survival courses. The army is not everyone’s business. Youth is education and culture,” Eugénie Loison immediately reframes.
With Emmanuel Macron’s desire to “rearm” a little everything and anything, the president of Free Thought fears that the SNU will not remain just a simple hiccup. Because so far, she recalls that there have been numerous malfunctions during the experiments. “Sexist comments, racist excesses and even sexual assaults have been reported,” insists Eugénie Loison, who remembers incidents that hit the headlines.
Full Metal Jacket
“A young toe amputee had been forced to do laps around the track, some dehydrated young people had felt unwell in the morning to raise the flag… I would prefer if they showed them Full Metal Jacket.”
More generally, the president of Free Thought doubts the qualification of former soldiers to take care of high school students. Likewise, the fact that volunteer teachers who leave at SNU are not replaced poses a problem for him. “This penalizes Terminale students.” And given the problems encountered in transporting students, not sure that the carrot of the free B permit will be enough to convince…
In view of the SNU’s triptych – “commitment, national cohesion, spirit of defense” – Eugénie Loison denounces a shift in republican values. Which are inscribed on the pediments of town halls: “Liberty, equality, fraternity”. “We don’t need to march in step for this.” As for the supposed promotion of popular education and social diversity at the SNU, she does not believe in it. “The government just needs to start by repealing the Debré law, which is favorable to private schools, often Catholic. Public money must go to public schools. We do not have to buy social peace with the Church. »
2024-02-04 03:45:44
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