• Emmanuel Macron returned to Marseille on Thursday, nine months after his declaration on "the school of the future".

    A trip for which the Head of State was accompanied by Pap Ndiaye, his new Minister of National Education.

  • “The school of the future” allows establishments to set up an innovative project around culture, languages, the environment or science by giving school principals the opportunity to participate in the recruitment of their teaching staff.

  • In this "school of the future", the president had announced that "school principals" could "choose the teaching team".

    This “flexibility in the system” must be generalized in all schools in France.

The announcement made nine months ago to the day had the effect of a bomb.

Nine months later, the President of the Republic returned to Marseille to try to unpin her.

This Thursday, Emmanuel Macron went to the Menpenti school in Marseille to take stock of the experiment launched in around fifty schools in the city, as planned in the Marseille plan in large.

For long hours, in an orchestrated exchange with a President of the Republic who did not hide his pleasure, the teachers were full of praise for this initiative which enabled them to set up in the nursery school a new methodology for learning mathematics.

"The school of the future"

“The school of the future” allows establishments to set up an innovative project around culture, languages, the environment or science by giving school principals the opportunity to participate in the recruitment of their teaching staff.

In this school in the center of Marseille, we seem a thousand miles from the initial declaration of Emmanuel Macron who, at the Pharo, had announced that "school principals" could "choose the teaching team", and this "in the neighborhoods where the situation is most difficult.

“It was only after several minutes that a teacher dared to approach on tiptoe this subject which tore the educational community apart.

" A capital gain "

The Menpenti school is indeed one of the first schools to have volunteered to benefit from this particular method of recruitment, allowing the tenure at the start of the school year of a teacher who has until now been a substitute in the nursery school.

“For a position with special requirements, the director and a teacher from the school have an opinion to issue, explains the director.

Positions with special requirements have existed for a very long time.

After consulting two inspectors, a director and a teacher, it is always the scale that is used to appoint a teacher to a school.

No, it is not the directors who recruit the teachers for their school!

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In front of a smiling President of the Republic, the teachers defend this measure, far from union criticism on the subject.

“Me, as a teacher, I think it's a real added value for the team and for the project.

The projects of the "Marseille en grand" plan are very very ambitious, require a lot of personal investment and also specific skills.

“I said: we are not going to get school principals to sort of make their own transfer window, says Emmanuel Macron.

It wouldn't work.

There must be national rules.

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Benoît Payan "against this case"

And to also announce the generalization of this experiment in all the schools of France, from next fall, praising the benefits of this “flexibility in the system”.

“If not, what does it do?

That makes educational communities who have colleagues who do not quite share the project, to whom we simply said: "You have to go there.", estimates the head of state.

People who undergo their assignment.

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An enthusiasm that the mayor of Marseille does not share, however, who said again this Thursday "against this affair".

“If we want it to work, we take time, we think and we make things evolve, believes Benoît Payan.

It doesn't happen with the snap of a finger.

As we speak, there is an Education Code which says that it is not the directors of establishments who recruit.

I take note of it, and I think that, today, everyone takes note of it.

There are red lines: it is the school of the Republic, the equality of all schools.

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