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For the very first time, bac 2020 will only be calculated on continuous assessment notes. A puzzle for National Education, which must ensure that each high school student is treated fairly, despite different marks from one class or from one high school to another. "It is important to be kind, to take this transition year into account," said Rodrigo Arenas, secretary general of FCPE, the Federation of Parents' Councils, at the microphone of Europe 1.
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"What matters is the curriculum"
You have to be careful, he says, not to withdraw its full value on the exam, however exceptional the conditions may be. "Today telling students that their bac is worth nothing, this is not the best way to value them ... This diploma does not sanction that the year of terminal, it sanctions the entire education, from kindergarten" , Rodrigo Arenas point. The tank in continuous monitoring should therefore not worry more than reason. "In a few months, nobody will have anything to do with the year of obtaining the baccalaureate. What matters is the curriculum," he said.
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"Investment and kindness"
For him, the real question is how to upgrade "long term" graduates who have not benefited as much as they should from the Terminale program. "It requires investment, kindness, and it requires teaming up together," says Rodrigo Arenas. He also calls for not forgetting the students of vocational high schools who, due to the epidemic, have, for the most part, not completed their internship in a company. "Many of them meet the employer there who will not recruit them later ..."