In France, Claire Hédon, the Defender of Rights, asks the government to find solutions, because like last year, thousands of students find themselves without assignment for the start of the school year in September, when they are entitled to pass in upper class. This concerns college students, but also high school students, unable to find a place, especially in technological and professional streams.
Catherine’s daughter is in second in a public high school. At the start of the school year, she wants to enter a professional sector, except that ” none of her wishes have been affected, so she finds herself without a desired school for the next year, which is extremely annoying when you are sixteen years old. »
And that weighs on his morale. ” It’s a feeling of deep failure, continues Catherine at the microphone of Baptiste Coulonfrom the French service of RFI, a feeling of terrible injustice to have gone to second general to be completely out of the system. »
Lack of space in these courses, poor results for some students, arguments that Catherine does not support: “ That’s not the school of the Republic, it’s: we welcome students, whatever their level. »
Young people without assignment, Bruno Piriou, mayor (various-left) of Corbeil-Essonnes, near Paris, crosses paths with them every year. He even filed a complaint against the National Education last year. ” We have 61 college students without assignment, he explains. You see, we are coming out of a very difficult week where, depending on his view of society, either we stigmatize part of the youth or we try to understand it. But, for the Republic to be respected, it must be respectable. However, there is a basic right to educate every child in our country, and today it is not respected. »
The Defender of Rights thus asked the Ministry of Education on July 6 to “ end to the non-assignment of high school students in France. In a decision rendered on Thursday, Claire Hédon indicated that she had seized ” automatically of the situation of many students who have encountered significant difficulties in continuing their education in high school in the absence of a place to accommodate them “, during the last school year.
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More than 17,000 high school students without assignment at the start of the 2022 school year
The defender of rights recommends to the ministry “ to take the necessary measures to put an end to “to non-assignment, to put in place” hotlines in the rectorates to respond quickly to urgent requests during school holidays » or to ensure « full-time support for students until they find a permanent assignment “.
These recurring assignment problems mainly concern students in the vocational stream. According to National Education figures, relayed in this document, on the day of the 2022 school year, ” 17,832 students were unassigned (+33% compared to 2021), including 12,992 in the vocational stream out of a total of 2,288,000 high school students. At the end of September 2022, 3,547 remained awaiting assignment “.
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More than a month after the start of the school year, i.e. in mid-October 2022, there remained ” 214 students (30 from general and technological high schools and 184 from vocational high schools) awaiting assignment “. These last figures, on the other hand, only concern five academies (Créteil, Lyon, Mayotte, Strasbourg and Versailles), characterized as “ presenting a particularly difficult situation “.
To explain this assignment problem, the ministry, quoted in this decision, puts forward ” the weakness of certain school results which leads establishments not to retain students, constraints linked to human resources, the geographical location of vocational training sites ” Or ” low diversity of applications “. He also states that ” 460 high school students who failed the baccalaureate were unable to re-enroll in their original high school at the end of September 2022.
But the ministry maintains that equal access for all candidates is guaranteed, regardless of their place of residence “. He indicates that boarding schools in rural areas are a “ example of action aimed at overcoming any obstacles to student mobility “.
(and with AFP)