The far-right candidate for the presidential election exchanged with a dozen teachers committed to his cause in the village of Honnecourt-sur-Escaut, before a public meeting in Saint-Quentin (Aisne), scheduled for the evening.

In his eyes, the school is since 1968 synonymous with "leveling down" and "generalized mediocrity", because "it is better that the students are mediocre to be able to indoctrinate them".

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resumed his recurring attacks against "LGBT ideology" and the associations SOS Homophobia and SOS Racisme, "lobbies that must be driven out of school", according to him.

"I am very sad" that Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer "fell into these signs. He gave the impression that he was Jules Ferry and ended up in Najat Vallaud-Belkacem", the former Minister of Education during the five-year term of François Hollande, judge Mr. Zemmour.

Against "the child king", he pleaded for the "restoration of authority", with the return of the "general supervisor", rather than the current principal adviser of education (CPE), and of a ministry of Public Instruction, rather than education, "responsibility of parents".

He reiterated his desire to stop English lessons in primary school to give priority to French and arithmetic, or to abolish the higher national institutes of teaching and education (formerly IUFM, to train teachers) in order to replace them with "regional normal schools".

Regarding disabled children, Eric Zemmour would prefer to welcome them in specialized establishments.

"The obsession with inclusion is a bad way for children and teachers," he said.

The candidate also calls for the wearing of the blouse in primary school.

"The blouse or the suppression of English in primary, it seems to me a little more anecdotal", reacted to AFP one of the teachers present.

This support from Nicolas Dupont-Aignan in 2017 is especially alarmed by the drop in grammar level and challenges the logic of "skills" at school, preferring "notes" and "merit".

According to Eric Zemmour, the school "it worked better before" and those who succeed today, the "Singaporeans or the Koreans", apply the "same methods" as Jules Ferry.

The cantor of the "union of the rights" also assumed to come to Hauts-de-France to compete with both his rival Marine Le Pen (RN), who regularly scores big there, and the right, while the region is chaired by Xavier Bertrand, who was mayor of Saint-Quentin.

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