INTERVIEW
A large part of the pupils had only returned to school for two weeks. The school holidays begin Friday, after a year very disturbed by the coronavirus pandemic. "The school has collapsed," said Rodrigo Arenas, co-president of the FCPE. Invited to Europe 1 on Thursday, he called for lessons to be learned from this "collapse". "You shouldn't be moping. It is an opportunity to do things differently. We cannot ignore this school which has had real difficulties."
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"We must invest massively in school"
The FCPE is currently in discussions with the ministries of education and higher education. "France is going to put 110 billion euros in industry, but we don't know how much we will release to reduce the number of students in the classes," stresses Rodrigo Arenas. But for now, "the discussions are not leading to much."
One of the priority issues for the FCPE is that of digital. "It is not a problem of equipment, it is a question of knowing how it becomes a link between teacher and pupils", specifies Rodrigo Arenas. He fears that we are moving towards a "computerized school", where teaching is "no longer a job but a job", and where students respond to expected "automated".
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To avoid the same dysfunction in the future, above all, according to the FCPE, "invest massively" to have smaller class sizes and "train teachers" in the event that this crisis situation recurs.