Based on a report submitted by Jean-Pierre Obin, the Minister of Education announced Monday evening a four-year plan to train all teachers in secularism.
Because currently, an extremely small number of them are able to react correctly in the event of an incident, according to the report.
Jean-Michel Blanquer announces a plan to train teachers in secularism, a plan that results from the new Obin report.
The Minister of Education had ordered it to the former Inspector General Jean-Pierre Obin, three months after the assassination of Samuel Paty, with a question: what is the level of knowledge and the capacity of the personnel of Education national to bring secularism and the principles of the Republic to life?
The finding is rather worrying.
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First on the number of teachers really trained.
In primary education, one in 100 teachers had followed a day of secularism training before the health crisis.
The situation is not much better in secondary education, where only four teachers out of 100 have taken such training.
The contract workers, on the other hand, have none.
Training obligation for each teacher and each CPE
Second worrying point, the vagueness that still remains around the very notion of secularism when it is taught.
Jean-Pierre Robin points out, in certain teacher training institutes, a teaching in secularism of the concordataire type and not of strict separation as established by the 1905 law. He even sometimes notes a deconstruction of the official discourse on secularism.
The idea adopted Monday evening by the minister is therefore to systematize initial and continuing training from the start of the school year with a four-year plan implemented by Jean-Pierre Obin himself. From September, 1,000 trainers from all over France will be trained. Each teacher and CPE and will then have the obligation to follow continuous training on secularism within three years of becoming tenured. The goal is that in the long term, no teacher or manager finds himself alone, isolated or caught in the famous "no waves" by self-censoring.