Return of “optional” math in 1st from the start of the school year in September: Emmanuel Macron underlined that their teaching “will not be[it] not compulsory from this first year”, in order to “do it quickly”
Emmanuel Macron announced Thursday, during a visit to Marseille, the return of mathematics ” optional “, ” not required “in class of 1re from next school year. Accompanied by the new Minister of National Education, Pap Ndiaye, he visited one of the fifty-nine “schools of the future” promoted in the “Marseille en grand” plan, the Menpenti school, which will be equipped with a mathematics laboratory.
“As I had committed to in the campaign, we will reintroduce in class 1re the possibility of choosing mathematics as an option”said the President of the Republic. “There will always be the maths specialty, but there will be the possibility offered to all students to choose outside the specialty the hour and a half of mathematics that had been taken out of the common core”he added.
Mr. Macron underlined that this lesson ” will not be[it] not compulsory from this first year”in order to “do it fast”. “I think we also have to get out of this dilemma, before it becomes mandatory. Let’s give freedom to children and families”he continued, adding: “We will offer them this freedom which corresponds to my commitment. »
Since the high school reform in 2019, mathematics was no longer part of the subjects taught to all high school students in the common core. In his program for his re-election, Mr. Macron promised the return of discipline from the class of 1reat the rate of an hour and a half to two hours more per week.
“With this choice of reintroducing math + as an option +, the government is taking a third way so as not to completely apply it from the start of the school year and not to postpone it to 2023 either, because Emmanuel Macron had promised it”, told Agence France-Presse (AFP) Sophie Vénétitay, general secretary of SNES-FSU, the first secondary school union. According to her, “This is a political posting”which does not “unfortunately not getting more students or more girls to choose maths”.
During this visit, the Head of State also confirmed that “from the start of the school year, elementary school students will do thirty minutes of sport every day”, another of his campaign promises.
