Minister Nicole Belloubet believes that “we must try everything” to battle in opposition to “discrimination” | EUROtoday

Pinned down by the press for outdated criticisms made in opposition to the varsity uniform, the brand new Minister of Education, Nicole Belloubet, certified her remarks on Monday February 12, judging that the experiment launched by the manager may very well be “a way to help students” And “avoid discrimination”.

“I think that if it is a way to help our students, if it is a way to avoid discrimination, we must try everything. An experiment is underway, it will be evaluated »declared the minister to the press, at the end of her first trip to a college in Reims, dedicated to the fight against school bullying.

The former Minister of Justice (2017-2020), who served as rector in the 2000s, judged in a publication in 2016 that “the restoration of authority or the wearing of the blouse” had been “fariboles”. Statements which seem to place her at odds with the road defended by Emmanuel Macron and Gabriel Attal.

Fariboles? “It’s a very pretty word and I find that the people who caught this word in this article have certainly not read the article at all”, the minister defended herself on Monday. Questioned final week on France 2, Gabriel Attal, for his half, assured that his ministers had been “totally aligned” on its positions.

Target of criticism from the precise and the far proper

Accused by right-wing and far-right personalities of “laxity” on the Ministry of Justice, and even complacency with Islamism on the time of the Mila affair – an adolescent threatened with loss of life for criticizing Islam –, M^me Belloubet has been in contrast since her appointment to the previous minister of nationwide training Pap Ndiaye, who turned the incessant goal of right-wing opposition, who noticed him as a promoter of communitarianism. “I have a lot of friendship for Pap Ndiaye. I am not Pap Ndiaye, because we each formed ourselves with our own convictions”the minister reacted on Monday.

“We must therefore do everything to help students and support teachers to obtain better academic results. I am fully committed to this mission which is that of the President of the Republic”added Nicoles Belloubet. “I have the ambition for the school both for the existence of rules, for respect for these rules, and for respect for teachers”she stated once more.

On the institution of stage teams in center college, a measure of the so-called “shock of knowledge” launched in 2023 by Gabriel Attal, when he was Minister of Education however which arouses robust rejection within the instructional neighborhood, Nicole Belloubet is proscribed to reaffirming its want to“enter into a serious and sustained dialogue with all representatives of teachers, school heads, inspection bodies”.