The proportion of students from outside Europe increased by 72 percent
Inadequate control of migration flows, as stated by the education authorities, has a negative impact on academic results, Agnès Evren, a Senate representative of the Republic Party, stated in a newspaper article, painting an alarming picture of how the quality of education is falling. The list of the thirty most successful French secondary schools was published.
In Wednesday's issue of Le Figaro, the politician spoke about the "colossal" challenge that uncontrolled migration poses to French education.
Agnès Evren points out: "Since 2000, the proportion of children with two parents born outside the EU has increased by 72 percent, so we need to increase our integration efforts tenfold for the growing number of students who
they don't speak French at home and whose families don't have the common national and cultural references."
A growing Islamist influence
Agnès Evren, who does not express her opinion from the sidelines (her article shows that she was previously in constant contact with the teaching community in the Ministry of Education and as vice-president responsible for high schools in the Ile-de-France region), points out:
must not be allowed to respect the rules of community life,
and by no means should it be allowed to be disputed.
"We must not give in to the violence and tragic cases of bullying affecting many schools! We must also redouble our efforts to end the growing attacks on secularism, which most high school students today consider an outdated concept.
under the influence of the fundamentalists and with the complicity of the extreme left"
- says the conservative politician.
"Secularism", which is one of the main pillars of French constitutionalism, originally meant the separation of church and state. Nowadays, this concept is often understood as the preservation of public administration and educational spheres free from the influence of Islamism.
"If we let our education system collapse, our society will eventually collapse too," warns Agnès Evren, whose article was timed to coincide with the publication of the school rankings precisely because of its implications for further education.
The least mobile country
According to the vice president of the Republicans, the French school system is doubly "sick." "On the one hand, the general standard of education is collapsing: our country has become a very mediocre student in Europe and is constantly slipping back in the international ranking.
In the fourth year of our high schools, almost half of the students cannot read properly and do not master the basics of mathematics."
On the other hand, social inequalities are getting worse, according to the senator, who sees a worrying decrease in social mobility: "France is one of the OECD countries where children have the least chance of one day ending up in a different environment than their parents, and where the social background has the greatest influence."
Against fragmentation
In the meantime , "instead of tightening the learning process, we decentralized it," admits the politician.
According to Agnès Evren: “It is absolutely necessary to confirm that
the school should provide a common framework that is mandatory for everyone.
A framework that is more important than ever in the fight against territorial, social, social and cultural fragmentation."
Source: hirado.hu
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