On the occasion of the start of the school year on Monday, Prime Minister Édouard Philippe accompanied Jean-Michel Blanquer, Minister of Education, to a primary school in Clichy-la-Garenne, in the Hauts-de-Seine. In this establishment in priority zone, which is experiencing a division of classes, the head of the government welcomed this measure.
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"We wanted to meet both the teachers and the very young children who are welcomed here to see how the implementation of these decisions that were taken by the government and which are applied everywhere in France", explained Édouard Philippe.
"We have also seen reduced enrollments due to the decision to split the grades of CP and CE1," he said, adding that Édouard Philippe later enumerated the benefits of such a measure. , like '"taking into account the peculiarities of each student much finer" and "learning to read and write that can be much faster".
300,000 children affected by the duplication of classes
He also recalled that "300,000 children benefit from this split of classes in CP and CE1". A figure which, for him, "is not anecdotal" but "quite considerable".
Prime Minister Edouard Philippe also highlighted the government's efforts to accommodate children with disabilities in school even if it recognizes that there is "still work". "We should be proud to have made up much of the delay, which for years was something that was not satisfactory," said the Prime Minister, recalling that "in 13 years, our country has managed to to increase the number of children with disabilities normally accommodated in school by three (360,000 against 120,000 previously) ".
"This is one of the progress of this season," confirmed the Minister of Education Jean-Michel Blanquer, adding that there are "25,000 more students compared to 340,000 last year "and" 4,500 companions in addition in this return ", which" have more stable contracts ".