• The confinement established in France in early 2020 to curb the spread of Covid-19 will not have been long in making its entry into school textbooks, according to an extract circulating on social networks.

  • The double page, which would be taken from a book intended for 6th year students, describes it in detail.

  • This extract is authentic and aims to make work the notion of general interest, as confirmed by the Belin editions at

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Whether they are perplexed, intrigued or frankly mocking, several Twitter and Facebook users have shared, during this back-to-school period, the same extract from the textbook: a double page entitled "Coronavirus and confinement: I understand the general interest ".

This aims, according to its "problematic", to get the pupils to wonder about a recent topical question ("How can certain freedoms be suspended in the name of the general interest?") While detailing, through various boxes, the practical modalities of anti-Covid-19 containment as it has been organized in France.

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This Belin publication is authentic: it is intended for 6th grade classes, and can be leafed through in full online.

"This school manual, which exists in paper version and in digital version, was published on April 27, 2021", confirms the publishing house, while specifying: "The last manual of this discipline that we produced dates from 2016. We believe - and this is the expectation of teachers of this discipline of history-geography-moral and civic education - that an update of documents, subjects illustrating concepts and statistical statements must be carried out regularly. "

“In this case, we have produced this new manual with recent documents, 5 years after the publication of the previous one.

The double page responds to the request of the Official Bulletin n ° 30 of July 26, 2018 program "Building a civic culture - Understanding the meaning of the general interest".

The pupils gradually learn to distinguish the particular interest from the general interest in concrete situations ”, continue Editions Belin.

A double page that does not position itself for or against containment

And the editor added that "the authors have chosen the example of confinement to illustrate the concepts of general interest and of particular interest [and] to anchor abstract concepts in a concrete case experienced by 6th grade students. ", Without" the double page is positioned for or against confinement ".

As the National Education website reminds us, if the purchase of college textbooks is carried out by the departments on the basis of a budget allocation from the State, “legally the textbooks must be renewed approximately every 4 years. ".

"The renewal of school books, orders for which are placed by schools at the beginning of the summer for delivery at the start of the school year, depends on the budgets of these same schools [and they] are proving to be low this year", underline the editions. Belin.

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