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Teacher and essayist Joachim Le Floch-Imad has published "Main basse sur l’Éducation nationale" (éd. du Cerf). This book analyzes the "crisis in education" and the mechanisms of the "educational crash" plaguing the French school system. 📚 To purchase "Main basse sur l’Éducation nationale" 👉 https://amzn.to/4ffGvRg This failure cannot be "considered just another crisis," emphasizes the author, who reminds us that "the transmission of knowledge, for which schools are responsible," contributes to "the survival of a civilization, a collective memory, and a language." While the collapse of academic standards has long been considered a reactionary refrain, studies conducted in recent years have reached the same conclusion. The TIMSS study – which measures performance in math and science – shows that French fourth-grade students have "the worst level in the European Union" in math and are "at the very bottom of the OECD rankings, between Kazakhstan and Montenegro." A public survey by the Directorate for Evaluation, Forecasting and Performance (DEPP) – responsible for producing analyses on the education system – reports that half of French sixth-grade students are unable to say how many quarter-hours are in three-quarters of an hour. The same observation is made regarding French, according to the DEPP, which points out that "on the same dictation of 67 words, 63% of fifth-grade students now make at least 15 mistakes, compared to 26% in 1987." Joachim Le Floch-Imad believes that this decline in academic standards "is evident at all levels" of the system, "from primary school to high school, and even at university and beyond," recalling that the head of the OECD's education section recently stated in the newspaper Marianne that "in France, many adults who have spent years in school, even at university, have a level of written French equivalent to that of a 10-year-old." While the reasons for the collapse of the school system are numerous, the essayist emphasizes the role of new teaching methods that have enshrined the child as a co-constructor of their learning and reduced the teacher's role to that of a facilitator. This educational vision has particularly penalized children from working-class backgrounds, according to Joachim Le Floch-Imad. "More than ever, our school system confirms, or even exacerbates, the determinisms of birth. All the statistics prove it." The latest installment of the PISA study ranks France among the worst performers in terms of the gap in performance between "wealthy students" and "poor students," with the latter being ten times more likely to be considered "struggling." Another major reason for the "educational crash" cited by the author is the collapse of teachers' authority and the rise in violence in schools, where many teachers "learn in fear." "Every school day now brings its share of administrators, student life coordinators, and teachers being insulted, threatened with death, or beaten. There are settling of scores with hammers, knives, Molotov cocktails, and fireworks. There is harassment, lynching, and honor killings committed by gangs of teenagers. There are schools riddled with bullets, vandalized, or forced to close or relocate due to their proximity to drug dealing hotspots," the essayist writes. And Joachim Le Floch-Imad concluded: “All those who have been the arsonists of the national education system in recent decades will not be the firefighters of tomorrow. If we want to get out of this mess, we must not only change the political elites but also change the technostructure. We need a kind of reset.” » ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ LINKS ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 🎙️ Journalist: Henri-Michel Thalamy 👉   / hm_thalamy   📩 [email protected] #EpochTimesFrance #Epoch #EpochTimes #School #Education #NationalEducation #Children #Students #Parents #Family #Instruction #Teachers #Secularism #SamuelPaty #Bac #Brevet #Baccalaureate 00:00 Intro 01:29 Real Collapse or Reactionary Fantasy? 07:50 Are All Students Affected? 09:40 What is the value of the Brevet and the Baccalaureate? 13:08 The role of the "deep state" 15:40 Millions wasted 20:08 Teachers at their wits' end: +567% resignations 25:13 Teachers recruited with an average of 4/20 27:59 The role of unions 34:55 The impact of pedagogical theorizing 41:11 An increasingly unequal school system 48:22 What future for technical fields? 53:33 The impact of screens and digital technology 57:54 Ideological indoctrination and activism 01:06:52 What impact on immigration? 01:11:56 The end of secularism? 01:14:50 The death of Samuel Paty 01:19:42 Extreme violence in schools: settling of scores, knives, and Molotov cocktails 01:28:32 A link between violence and lack of education? 01:31:43 Advice for parents 01:35:10 Can the school apocalypse still be avoided?