The Minister of Education Jean-Michel Blanquer, October 29, 2020. -

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Moral and civic education will be strengthened "from the start of the next school year," Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer announced on Saturday in an interview with the Parisian, who will go on Monday with the Prime Minister to the Yvelines college where Samuel Paty taught. .

On the occasion of the start of the school year on Monday, a tribute to the teacher assassinated on October 16 after showing caricatures of Mohammed to his students is planned in French schools, with in particular a minute of silence at 11 a.m., after the reading of Jean Jaurès' letter to teachers.

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"We will not accept that the minute's silence is not respected," says Mr. Blanquer in Le Parisien.

"If there are problems, the" Values ​​of the Republic "teams, which come to help staff prevent attacks on secularism, will visit the establishments concerned to help resolve them.

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For the rest, the minister wants "from the next school year" "a" strengthening of moral and civic education, especially in terms of the number of hours of lessons.

The latter also provides for a “reform of the patent, the principle of which will be to promote the civic engagement of students”.

Patent reform

"For example, when they join the Cadets of the Republic with the police or with the gendarmes, when they participate in the cleaning of a forest or help the elderly, that will count," he continues, adding that these developments will be "clarified in the coming months".

Among other proposals on October 19, the boss of deputies LR Damien Abad had mentioned a "compulsory test for the patent" on "the values ​​of the Republic and secularism".

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