The teachers of the Lycée Bourdelle de Montauban ready to boycott the anticipated bac exams

Nothing is ready, according to the teachers of the Antoine-Bourdelle high school in Montauban. Object of their anger: the anticipated tests of the bac for the first classes: history-geo, languages, and math, which must take place over three days, next week. About 10% of the baccalaureate is taken by high school students, as part of continuous assessment. Each school chooses its date. In Bourdelle, it will be from January 20, over three days. And each teacher chooses the subject that he will propose to his students. But in Montauban as elsewhere in the Toulouse academy, the teachers explain having received the subject proposals much too late: the majority at the start of the school year in early January, when they were announced in November, or even before.

“It put extra pressure!” – a history-geo teacher

According to these teachers, the deadline is too short to prepare the students. Basically, everything is done “hard”. “We are not ready!” rebels Loïc Benayoun, professor of mathematics. He explains that on the subjects received “there are errors, or points out of programs”, and especially that he does not have time to prepare the students in just a fortnight.

Consequence of a reform of the badly tied bac, according to the teachers

Emmanuel Loubet is a professor of geo-history, and for him, what is happening today is one more consequence of a reform of the badly crafted bac: “the students also live it very very badly. put extra pressure! “

In reaction, the professors decided not to choose a subject, and to return the ball to the academic director, who will decide. Some teachers are prepared not to take the tests. In Montauban, parents of FCPE students stand in solidarity with the movement. A demonstration is planned at 3.30 p.m. this Wednesday afternoon in front of the rectorat of Toulouse to request the cancellation of these tests.

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