An important section on education. During his press conference this Tuesday evening, January 16, Emmanuel Macron announced a series of measures to rearm the school, including the doubling of the teaching of civics, the strengthening of artistic and cultural education or further experimentation with the unique outfit for a hypothetical generalization in 2026.
“From the start of the 2024 school year, civic education will be refounded. Its hourly volume will be doubled – one hour per week from fifth grade – with support from the major founding texts of the nation,” explained the President of the Republic during a press conference.
Questioned by a journalist on the aspect of civic education, the Head of State also said he was “totally in favor of learning the Marseillaise in primary school”. “It’s even essential because it’s what unites us, it’s the fruit of our history,” he explained. Current programs already include the possibility for teachers to “start singing a few verses of the Marseillaise, from CE2”.
Determine “the proper use of screens for our children”
Emmanuel Macron also addressed artistic and cultural education deployed in schools “for a little over six years now” and which “will be strengthened, as for music and the plastic arts”, he said, before to hope “that theater becomes an obligatory course in college from the next school year because it gives confidence. It teaches orality, contact with great texts”, he continued. “Art history will find its place again at the start of the next school year in middle and high school,” he insisted.
The President of the Republic also announced that the single outfit for students would be tested this year in around a hundred voluntary schools and generalized in 2026 if the results are conclusive. He also wanted to restore graduation ceremonies “starting this year” at the college, “a Republican rite of unity, pride and recognition,” he declared during a press conference.
Finally, Emmanuel Macron said he wanted to determine “the proper use of screens for our children, in families, at home and in class”, on the basis of an expert report that the Head of State brought together. last week.