Paris (AFP)
The Minister of Education Jean-Michel Blanquer reported on Tuesday of a "quarantine" of high schools disturbed during the tests of continuous control of the new baccalaureate which have just started and which the teachers unions are requesting the removal.
These tests, known by the acronym "E3C", must be spread over a month and a half depending on the high schools. Great innovations of the new bac, they are divided into three sessions over the years of Première and Terminale and account for 30% of the final grade.
"More than 420 high schools entered these tests and in the vast majority of cases it happens with confidence, so there is no technical preparation on the part of the institution," said Jean-Michel Bleach before the National Assembly during the session of questions to the government.
"On the other hand, in 10% of the cases, that is to say about forty high schools, there were indeed disturbances", he listed, condemning the "provoked disorder".
According to the minister, in "less than a dozen cases", trials had to be postponed because of the protests.
In the Aquitaine region, for example, according to the rectorate, more than 80% of the tests were held on Tuesday morning. But they have been reported in at least three establishments: in Bordeaux, Gradignan (Gironde) and in Lescar (Pyrénées-Atlantiques).
For several days, unions of teachers and professors have been calling for various actions on social networks to "block" this new bin set up by Jean-Michel Blanquer, denouncing his "lack of preparation".
The disruptions started as early as the weekend. Saturday, the tests which were to be held at the Lycée Blaise-Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand, were canceled after the intrusion of opponents in the corridors of the establishment.
"It is a scandal," reacted Sunday on this subject Jean-Michel Blanquer on France inter. "It is very serious and there will therefore be prosecutions," he said.
"I do not give in to this kind of intimidation," he also said.
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