A National Education report reveals that nearly one in ten teenagers has great difficulty reading, and 5% are illiterate.
Written by the General Inspectorate for Education, Sport and Research, a national education report show that illiteracy, long underestimated in France, affects 5% of teenagers aged 16 and nearly one in 10 young people have reading difficulties. According to the authors of the study who denounce “ignored alerts”, the care would be unsuitable in the school environment. National Education “bears its share of responsibility” believe the researchers, because even if actions have been put in place in schools, they are little applied on a daily basis or lack coordination between the actors. As a result, the students concerned as well as the parents of students experience this situation as a “fatality” specifies the text.
In addition, the report suggests concrete proposals to better support young people, but also to detect and identify difficulties. In particular the strengthening of training and the common culture of the teams, better harmonization at the national level of the care of teenagers, with reflex measures, or the creation of a scientific and educational council.