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Education: the first steps and the first blow for the new minister Anne Genetet

The former Macronist member of the French Abroad who spoke on defense issues in the National Assembly, made her first field trip to the Gabriel-Havez college in Creil, in the Oise, which in 1989, was center on the “headscarf affair” with the exclusion of three young girls, the beginning of four decades of controversy about religion at the school.

The minister carefully spoke to teachers and students about the various projects implemented in the institution, on harassment, secularism or civil security.

Do not repeat the mistakes of Oudéa-Castéra

During this exercise, as thoroughly as it was studied, she avoided leaving the road immediately. of one of the predecessors of Amélie Oudéa-Castérawho had justified his children’s education in a posh private institution with “hour packages that were not greatly replaced” to the public, causing an uproar.

Embarrassed since her appointment for her lack of knowledge of the world of education, the new minister, as “AOC”, had to face the first disassociation test, as a result of her work previously consulting for expatriates hiring domestic workers in Singapore in the 2010s.

Striving to be a good listener, she invited the ministry of TikToker SenseidesMots, author of a petition proposing a change in school records to hold “the most challenging courses” “just in the morning”, which gathered more than 300,000 signatures.

An invitation was immediately canceled after the publication of old homophobic messages from the TikToker whose content had been denounced​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ off”.

First out on Friday

On Friday, in her first interview on RTL, the minister informed himself by announcing a “time of reflection” for October 7, the anniversary of the unprecedented attack by Hamas against Israel, before the backup ministry by specifying that it was a commemoration of the death of the teachers who were killed, Dominique Bernard and Samuel Paty, planned for next Monday.

“I’m starting to miss Amélie Oudéa-Castéra,” the communist senator Pierre Ouzoulias, an education expert, mocked X. “The same energy,” added Sophie Vénétiay, general secretary of Snes-FSU, the first union of high- stage accompanying her message on X with a video where the former minister slips into the Seine.

Education in crisis

Since taking office, Anne Genetet has been walking on eggshells in a world of education in crisis, plagued by unprecedented ministerial instability with five ministers since the re-election of Emmanuel Macron. in 2022.

Wishing to introduce stability and pacification, she confirmed when power was transferred by her predecessor Nicole Belloubet that she did not want to “change course” on education policy.

She repeated it on Thursday in front of the management: “she will not be a minister of the ‘big bang’, promising “peace” and “stability”.

“Important projects have been opened in the last few years and I am committed to making them happen,” she said, indicating in particular that she would begin the reform of the initial training of teachers, which was was arrested since Attal’s resignation. government.

Minister in charge?

“The course is set and held. It is still this little phrase that, in my opinion, summarizes everything,” said Sophie Vénétiay, after the first meeting with Anne Genetet on Wednesday.

“She is a minister who is under supervision, who is under the guard of Gabriel Attal and Emmanuel Macron to follow the policies that are being followed,” said the trade union.

Anne Genetet, who has several Gabriel Attal colleagues in her team, confirmed on RTL “being part of the education policy launched by the President of the Republic in 2017”.

2024-10-05 20:18:51
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