2023-11-26 13:41:00
Pierre-Yves Jeholet was the guest of the show Face à Buxant this Sunday on RTL TVI. The Minister-President of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation (FWB), an institution which manages French-speaking education in particular, spoke regarding the level of students.
As a reminder, the annual budget allocated by the FWB to education increased from 6.9 billion euros in 2011 to 8.8 billion in 2021. Within the Ministry of Education, 86% of expenditure aims to pay salaries of teaching staff, recalls the magazine Le Vif.
Martin Buxant: I am going to relay the concern of thousands of French-speaking parents, what is happening? Why is the level of French-speaking children failing to take off?
Pierre-Yves Jeholet: We will have PISA tests (Editor’s note: the OECD’s Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) evaluates education systems around the world) in December. We will see these results. But it is true that compared to the public money invested for decades in education we see that the quality is not sufficient. This is why we put the excellence pact in place. There is an implementation of the measures of the pact, which are not yet producing all their effects today. Will this be enough? No. I think that at some point there will be savings to be made. More efficiency too. When we see the administrative burden in schools. The statutes need harmonization and simplification of the statutes. We need a single public education network, alongside the free education network. And then very concrete measures to fight once morest dropping out of school. The three-year bond, for example. This is a very strong measure.
Martin Buxant: What is that? Explain.
Pierre-Yves Jeholet: Today, children are obliged to go to school from the age of five.
Martin Buxant: Yes, compulsory education from the age of three.
Pierre-Yves Jeholet: And then also do an assessment of fundamental learning. Read, write, calculate much earlier to avoid dropping out. And then, you know, we have to put values back into the school. The taste for work, the taste for effort. And also respect. Respect for his teacher. Respect for the director.
Martin Buxant: Is there no more respect? Is there less respect?
Pierre-Yves Jeholet: Not enough. I think the child king has no place in school. Today, some parents are taking responsibility for the education of their children. That’s not okay.
Martin Buxant: And the teachers, are they less well trained than before? We see that in the international rankings things are not going well.
Pierre-Yves Jeholet: No, they are not less well trained. We obviously know that it is difficult because school is a reflection of society. And we encounter a lot of problems in society. I’m talking regarding respect. We might talk regarding violence, harassment. So we can’t put all of children’s education on the shoulders of teachers either. This is too often the case. There is a lack of responsibility for some parents in the education of their children. So at some point, we must come back with these values at the heart of the school.
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