Visit this Wednesday, January 27 of the future college of Saint-Simon, which will replace the Badiou (Reynerie) and Bellefontaine colleges, as part of the social mix system launched by the Department.
Almost four years after launching its social mix system in secondary schools (2017), the Haute-Garonne departmental council is entering a new phase with the construction of a future Saint-Simon college, at 134 avenue du Général Eisenhower In Toulouse.
A visit by the owner was organized on Wednesday January 27. No one knows yet what final name it will bear, but it will be able to accommodate more than 700 college students from the Reynerie, Bellefontaine and Saint-Simon districts.
At Reynerie, the Raymond Badiou college closed its doors for good last September and the same fate will be in store for Bellefontaine college in two years. Since 2017, nearly 900 students have benefited from the social mix system and educated outside their neighborhood in eleven so-called “favored” colleges in the Pink City: Fermat, Bellevue, Les Chalets, Michelet, but also Labitrie in Tournefeuille, Montesquieu in Cugnaux, Jules Verne in Plaisance-du-Touch.
“Emancipation, universalism and humanism”
For Georges Méric, president of the departmental council of Haute-Garonne, social diversity in colleges should be understood as a triptych: “emancipation, universalism and humanism”. A priori, this works quite well for these children whose environment, in theory, was not considered favorable to academic success.
Taking note of the 2015 OECD report, which denounced “the effects of social and educational segregation” of the French system, the departmental council “decided to take up the challenge in order to reduce social determinism”.
Improving school diversity requires a financial commitment of 56 million euros for the community. Badiou and Bellefontaine colleges educated “more than 80% of students from disadvantaged families for whom the classic sectorization measures would not have been effective”, indicates the community.
It is clear that for the past four years, school results have been “encouraging”. Before the mixed school system, “the averages in French and mathematics for the college certificate were 7.5 and 4.8 at Raymond Badiou,” recalls Philippe Destable, deputy academic director.
The results of the 2019-2020 certificate of students from the Reynerie district indeed reveal that “64% of them have an average of over 8 in French (including 45.4% who are over 10) and 54.5% have an average above 8 in mathematics (of which 37.5% are over 10) ”. “There is an effect of perseverance, especially among students of 3rd, adds Philippe Destable. Above all, there are no students in distress or dropping out, which was previously observed in neighborhood colleges ”.
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