On April 10, Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen qualified for the second round of the presidential election. Revaluation of teachers’ salaries, digital at school, return of the uniform, baccalaureate… What do the candidates offer?
This Sunday, April 11, Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen qualified for the second round of the presidential elections. The outgoing president won 27.6% of the vote and the president of the RN 23.4% of the vote. Jean-Luc Mélenchon came in 3rd position with 22% of the votes. Eric Zemmour obtained 7.1% of the votes and Valérie Pécresse, 4.8% of the votes. The second round of the presidential election will take place on Sunday 24 April. the Journal des Femmes helps you compare the programs of the two candidates for the Elysée concerning the education of our children.
Emmanuel Macron: maths, orientation, digital and professional sector
This March 17, Emmanuel Macron presented the main lines of his program, where education occupies a central place. The candidate president thus promises to increase the salaries of teachers if they undertake to take on different missions such as the replacement of their absent colleagues, personalized follow-up of pupils and a greater investment in extracurricular activities. Emmanuel Macron also wishes integrate mathematics into the common core of terminale and make public the evaluations carried out in CP, CE1, 6th and second. It also wants to make the autonomy of primary schools a priority and propose 35-hour contracts at AESH (Accompanying students with disabilities). Finally, the President would like high school students in vocational establishments are paid. He promises an envelope of 12 billion devoted to education and youth and a great consultation at the start of the five-year term with teachers, parents, secondary school students and local elected officials. Indeed, Emmanuel Macron had already specified, on March 3, that he wanted make a selection in the professional sectors, too numerous and for some without outlets and to increase the partnership with companies in vocational high schools. “The second major project in connection with companies” relates to orientation, had explained the president who wishes to “sanctuarize” half a day a week, from the 5th class, for all college students, to deal with the “very big problem of orientation”. Emmanuel Macron had also insisted on the importance of digitalannouncing that college students will be able to choose in 5th grade to learn the code “in equivalent to the second living language”.
Marine Le Pen: uniform, French, maths, history, upgrading of teachers
During a press conference on March 7, 2022, Marine Le Pen unveiled the main lines of her program for education. “French educational excellence has been massacred”, she said. The candidate of the National Rally (RN), who wishes the return of the uniform in primary and secondary schoolwants to “put back at the heart of the programs” the teaching of French, mathematics and history. “My first measure will be a gradual upgrading of teachers from elementary to high school, in five years. Their index grid will be increased by 3% per year., she explained, in order to fight against the proletarianization of teachers. Marine Le Pen also wants increase the number of lesson hours in primary school and provide that the number of pupils per class is limited to 20 in the Grande section and in CP and to 30 in the secondary. She wants the school to be a “machine for assimilating and creating the French people of tomorrow” and insists that the Islamic veil be prohibited for all accompanying persons on school trips. Among the other measures announced by Marine Le Pen: the abolition of the baccalaureate reformthe widespread deployment of video surveillance in secondary establishments, greater severity in the face of absenteeism, an upgrading of vocational training.
► The Marine Le Pen program