WORLD WORLDWIDE FRANCE News Journal Update - (en) France, UCL AL #342 - National rehabilitation, With Gabriel Attal it's the return of the Blanquer method! (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

With the appointment of Gabriel Attal, the good student of Macronie, to
the Ministry of National Education we expected the worst... and,
immediately, we were not disappointed! It is still and always an archaic
and outdated vision of school which gives pride of place to the
fantasies of the right and the extreme right. Evaluations, uniforms,
nationalism and facade secularism, hiding a real Islamophobia, are there.
Throughout his five years as minister during Macron's first five-year
term[1], Blanquer tore up National Education with his authoritarian and
liberal reforms. Then, for a year, Pap Ndiaye's exercise, although
carried out under an identical managerial dogma, gave the staff a little
break, in particular by distinguishing himself from his predecessor by
freeing his action from the influence of extreme RIGHT. The appointment
of Gabriel Attal on July 20, 2023 announces the return of Blanquer's
method and whims to this ministry.

The message sent by Macron and Gabriel Attal for the 2023 school year is
clear: the problem of National Education is not the glaring lack of
resources and teachers (1,433 unfilled positions for this school year),
nor the absence of a real ambition to fight against the ableist society
with a school that gives itself the means to be truly inclusive, nor the
improvement of the disastrous status of AED[2], AESH[3]colleagues (in
the vast majority women) and other technical and administrative staff
whose salary increases will not even catch up with inflation - for
example AESH colleagues cap at salaries below 1,000 euros due to an
unfavorable salary scale and imposed part-time work -, nor yet the
financial struggles of families in working-class neighborhoods affected
by inflation and the increase in school, housing and food costs.

Not that we say it: for the liberal bourgeoisie the problem would be to
restore order after the urban riots following the assassination of Nahel
by the police and therefore to force the working classes to stay longer
within this school which remains, due to lack of means, unequal. The
danger would also be the calling into question of secularism and
therefore the urgent need to ban... the abaya (67 refusal to "comply
with the rule") thus stigmatizing students of Muslim faith or supposed
to be Muslim. being and demonstrating once again the desire to control
women's bodies, the ban on the male equivalent, the quamis, having been
added subsequently.

A minister who flirts again with the far right
However, if we want to evoke a simple and strong measure in terms of
secularism, it would suffice to look at private schools, in fact private
education under contract, mainly Catholic, brought together more than 2
million students at the start of the 2022 school year, or 17.6% of the
school population, in a little more than 7,500 establishments and which
monopolize through its 8 billion euros of public agent according to the
first report of the Court of Auditors submitted in June 2023[4]without
mentioning of the concordat in Alsace-Moselle. As we can observe, Attal
opens his mandate with an Islamophobic measure by targeting students of
Muslim faith, or supposed to be, positioning themselves under the direct
influence of the nauseating ideas of the extreme right (such as by
example the Zemourian entryism strategy in parent-teacher associations,
see article below).

Unbridled liberalism in the service of an authoritarian pedagogy
By continuing the implementation of the "teaching pact"[5], a managerial
tool for unraveling statuses and establishing contractualization and the
subordination of the teaching profession to the hierarchy, Attal shows
its desire to prolong the attacks liberal on school. Since Macron's
election in 6 years, more than 8,000 teaching positions have been
eliminated in parallel with the reception of more than 20,000 additional
students in public secondary education.

By imposing the implementation of new national assessments in CM1 and
4th grade, it is the culture of assessment and competition that Attal
intends to strengthen within the "education nation start-up". And in the
fever of this noisy start to the school year, the architect of the
implementation of the SNU (Universal National Service) intends to
continue Pap Ndiaye's project of introducing militarism and the crassest
nationalism into high schools by creating a week called "cohesion" which
would allow second year students to do part of the SNU during school
time. And the icing on the cake, teachers could participate through the
PACTE...

We also do not forget the major attack against working class students
with the reform of the vocational high school which will see the
exposure of young people to exploitation by companies through a greater
presence in internships, and the reduction of teaching time in
professional high schools[6]

Anger could quickly brew
But make no mistake, the government is coming out of a sequence of
social movements on pensions, where it was certainly able to impose its
reform, but where it lost considerably in confidence and credibility.
National Education personnel were able to play a role in this period,
and the ferment of combativeness could well continue to grow and
constitute a beautiful grain of sand in the cogs of Macronie. For this
reason, unionists were able to observe the notable influx of colleagues
who came in large numbers to the union information hours in June to
decipher the issues of the implementation of the PACTE which is causing
the staff rooms to rumble.

Did you say secularism? Laurent didn't hear well...
Youth certainly also have their say regarding the desire to come into
line with the SNU, and the disruption of the SNU villages during the
caravan's tour suggests that things are not quite right for the new SNU
tandem. , Prisca Thévenot - Gabriel Attal[7]

We libertarian communists, on the contrary, defend a change in society
and the advent of an emancipatory school which gives students the means
to equip themselves to lead the fight against all discrimination,
whether social, racial or gender. or disability. This involves
popularizing the contributions of critical and libertarian pedagogies
within our teaching teams, through the development of emancipatory and
cooperative pedagogies. This also involves strengthening our union tools
and building fighting collectives within establishments.

The Buissonnière Class

Classe truant brings together UCL education workers.

To validate

[1]https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Vers-la-demission-de-Blanquer-et-au-dela

[2]AED: educational assistants, they supervise and monitor students in
middle and high schools.

[3]AESH: accompanying students with disabilities, accompany and provide
support in class to students with disabilities or special educational needs.

[4]"Private education under contract", report available on the website
of the Court of Auditors, www.ccomptes.fr

[5]"teacher pact": sets of measures intended to revalorize and
"modernize" the teaching profession proposed to volunteer teachers
consisting essentially of the acceptance of additional missions serving
to compensate for the shortcomings of the institution, in particular
replacing absent colleagues.

[6]"Professional high school: The Blanquer chainsaw", Alternative
libertaire, n°286, September 2018.

[7]"No to universal national service!"», Press release from UCL, July
21, 2022, on www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org.

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Avec-Gabriel-Attal-c-est-le-retour-de-la-methode-Blanquer
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