The Minister of Education's kids's faculty, a brand new gauge of its legitimacy | EUROtoday

LFor a very long time, “children’s school” was not an issue. A Minister of National Education naturally enrolled his kids in public schooling or discreetly re-enrolled them there on the time of his appointment. Otherwise, for ministers like François Bayrou (1993-1997) and François Fillon (2004-2005), the argument of the Catholic religion was sufficient to shut the topic. The controversy surrounding the education of the three sons of Amélie Oudéa-Castéra – demoted to sports activities and the Olympic Games, her unique ministry, Thursday February 8, and changed by Nicole Belloubet – at Stanislas Catholic College, in Paris, demonstrates a apparent change of occasions.

Several components mixed to elucidate the violence of the debates: independently of the selection of personal faculty, which belongs to every dad or mum, M^me Oudéa-Castéra assumed a type of faculty separatism, whereas criticizing public colleges on the idea of “memories” of trainer absences which didn’t happen. The profile of the institution, focused by a report from the final inspectorate for acts of assaults on the values ​​of the Republic and circumvention of reforms, can be not unrelated.

Before this paroxysmal case, the query of kids's education – or that of the ministers themselves – had already develop into a problem: the registration of Pap Ndiaye's kids (2022-2023) on the Alsatian School was debated in 2022, as was the education carried on the market by Gabriel Attal, his short-lived successor, earlier than being named prime minister. The arrival of M^me Belloubet, whose three kids, in addition to herself, acquired their schooling in public schooling, may droop this debate for some time.

Why the tutorial background of the workplace holder and his household now taken into consideration within the evaluation of its legitimacy? First speculation: the evolution of inner energy relations throughout the Ministry of Education. “Previously, and almost continuously until Vincent Peillon [2012-2014]you had to have at least secondary education, or even university education, to access the position”, argues researcher Annabelle Allouch. This selection of a minister “among his peers” mirrored very robust co-management of the schooling system with the unions.

“From the moment the power of the unions weakened, the fact of choosing a person from the teaching world lost its importance”provides M^me Allouch. From then on, the legitimacy to direct the general public schooling service has shifted to the sector of private selections, perceived as a mirrored image of the values ​​of the person.

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