A return to school from August 20 for students in difficulty, this is what Emmanuel Macron offers to allow those who need to catch up before the next school year. A proposal that does not fail to make the teachers’ unions react.
While the start of the 2023 school year scheduled for Monday September 4 has not yet started, back to school 2024 is already shaking students and teachers who could well be back on school benches, in the middle of August! In an interview with the newspaper Pointthe Head of State indeed proposed a return to school from August 20, 2024, considering that there was “too many vacations”.
Back to school on August 20, 2024 for students in difficulty
According to him, an early start would allow students “who need it” to catch up before classes resume. “There are too many vacations, and too busy days. The students who will have been assessed, and who will need it, we have to be able to get them home from August 20 to allow them to catch up and we must reconquer the month of June for students who do not take tests at the end of the year“said Emmanuel Macron.
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For the time being, the teachers’ unions have reacted strongly to this new proposal. The SNUipp-FSU, the first primary school union, fiercely opposes the rreduction of major holidayss and believes that this measure “stigmatizes a type of student, those who are most in difficulty”.
“It shocks us, because first of all, there is the right to vacation for those children who must also be able to leave and discover things“, replied Guislaine David, secretary general of the FSU-Snuipp, during a press conference organized this Thursday, August 24. She is also worried about the physical and mental state of the students if they were to start two weeks later. earlier than the others, In addition, teachers “will not be quick to respond to a resumption on August 20“ added the Secretary General.