During presidential campaigns, education is one of the imposed figures, achieved with more or less enthusiasm. These are a dozen recommendations on the school that Emmanuel Macron has paid to the debate; Marine Le Pen declined about twenty.
Emmanuel Macron had promised, on March 17, in Aubervilliers (Seine-Saint-Denis), to make education a strong axis of his campaign and a “major project” of the next five-year term. Her rival, Marine Le Pen, to treat her like a “top priority”.
A few days before the deadline, this Sunday, April 24, an observation brings together observers of the political scene: the school, despite these declarations of intent, was not at the heart of the debates; but we can read in the proposals of the two finalists divergent logics, in line with the political positioning of their parties, La République en Marche (LRM) and the National Rally (RN).
A “new pact”
Liberal and/or technocratic logic, for Emmanuel Macron’s project. Specialists expected the latter to play the card of a college reform – the only link in the system which he has not touched in five years – or that he bet everything on an extension of the “doubling”his flagship promise of 2017. Mr Macron highlighted another priority: that of a “new pact” addressed to teachers, conditioning, if he is re-elected, the“substantial increase” from their remuneration to the acceptance of new assignments (replacements, help with homework, etc.).
Wednesday, April 20, during the televised debate against Mme Le Pen, Mr. Macron took a step aside: he committed to a “unconditional revaluation” of the profession and that there is “no more career start-ups below 2,000 euros”. But he did not renounce his initial logic: the teachers who will « plus » will be increased « plus ».
“New pact”: the expression is intended to bring about change. However, it is part of the continuity of the quinquennium which is ending. There was the “teacher of the XXIe century “ whose Minister of Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer, tried to sketch the outlines in 2021, during a Grenelle of education disturbed by the health crisis. There was also the“school of the future” inaugurated in Marseille, by Emmanuel Macron himself, in September 2021, with the aim of encouraging volunteer teams (they are around fifty) to experiment with their own educational project, and directors to recruit their own troops.
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