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In a few days, 12 million young people aged 6 to 18 will be returning to school. If a return to school is never an ordinary day for a child, this return to the 2024-2025 publishing class will not be easy for the teaching staff.
“Needs groups” arrive at college
Because this new school year is the grand opening of the “knowledge shock” desired and implemented by Gabriel Attal during his time at the Ministry of National Education in 2023. One of the flagship measures of this new school policy is the implementation of “needs groups” for sixth and fifth grade students in mathematics and French classes.
This measure should be extended from 2025 to 4th and 3rd grade students. It consists of learning in two stages. The first, classic, during class time, the second more specific, depending on the needs of the student, carried out by small groups.
It is important to note that this reform is very poorly viewed by the teaching profession. Both teachers and heads of establishments are opposed to it. In a column published in Le Figaro, French teacher Ophélie Roque considers that the creation of these “needs groups” signals “the announced death of the teaching profession”.
A “digital pause”
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Another big change for the new school year is the introduction of the ” break digital “. It should be tested in several pilot colleges before gradually extending to the rest of France. Concretely, the ban on mobile phones as provided for by law will be “effective and total throughout the entire school time”.
200% Deposit Bonus up to €3,000 180% First Deposit Bonus up to $20,000A zero tolerance that should, according to the ministerial circular, allow students to disconnect during school time. In the long term, this measure aims to improve a student's concentration skills. On average, the attention span of a middle school student is 9 seconds. For comparison, a goldfish can remain focused on an element for 8 seconds.
The return of the uniform
Even more visible than the end of cell phones in the playground, the return of the uniform is one of the executive's major projects for this back-to-school period. The resigning minister Nicolle Belloubet has pushed in recent months for a large number of establishments to be “testers” of this return of the uniform.
54 years after it was abandoned, it will therefore make its return in 79 middle schools across France. A generalization to the whole of France is currently being discussed for the start of the 2025 school year. However, it has still not been decided, and the question of the uniform remains politically very sensitive.
The reform of the middle school diploma
Finally, the last major change plan for this 2024 school year concerns the middle school diploma. This diploma, which allows you to complete four years of work, will become “more complicated”. Until now, you had to get 400 points out of 800 to graduate.
If the scale does not change, it is the distribution of these famous points that has evolved. The 2025 edition will therefore be the first to favor end-of-year exams (60% of the grade) over continuous assessment (40% of the grade) since the latter was introduced.
Another new feature is that obtaining the brevet will be a prohibitive condition for entering high school. Students who do not obtain the diploma will find themselves in a brand new “prep second” class the following year. allowing to « reinforce the achievements of middle school » without repeating the third year.
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