Question 13422 — teaching

Summary

Mr. Frédéric Boccaletti draws the attention of the Minister of National Education to the consistency of the prior authorization regime for family education (IEF), established by Law No. 2021-1109 of August 24, 2021. This reform moved family education from a declaratory regime to an authorization regime, presented as a measure for protecting the best interests of the child and preventing marginal abuses. But the data public authorities establish that situations linked to radicalization represented an extremely marginal proportion of the families concerned (around 0.04% according to the report of the Court of Auditors), while more than 90% of educational controls were considered satisfactory. At the same time, the Minister of National Education himself publicly recognizes the extent of violence and harassment in schools. In his letter addressed to parents of students on February 12, 2026, he declared that “recent years and more particularly recent weeks have been marked by several particularly violent attacks, both against national education staff and between students.” He notes “a form of trivialization of violence, extreme, what is more” and explicitly recognizes that “more than one child per class on average is a victim of harassment, with destructive consequences.” He goes so far as to affirm that “the school does a lot, but it cannot do everything” and calls for “a collective effort to preserve what unites us”, calling on parents to “report any acts of harassment or violence”. He even explicitly describes the situation as a “scourge of violence and harassment”. Recent events that occurred in Sanary-sur-Mer, where a teacher was stabbed by a student, followed by a bomb threat as well as other phenomena of violence that occurred in other establishments in France, tragically illustrated the reality of these tensions, including in communities known to be peaceful. In this context, it appears deeply paradoxical that the State massively refuses family education (27% refusal in the Nice academy) in the name of child protection while officially recognizing that one child per class on average (i.e. around 30%) experiences bullying with “destructive consequences”. Furthermore, the proximity of these proportions raises even more questions as families requesting home education frequently cite situations of discomfort, academic anxiety or harassment. And it must be remembered that the security abuses invoked to justify the 2021 law today appear extremely marginal. He therefore wishes to know how the Government justifies the maintenance of such a restrictive system of prior authorization for family education, established in the name of protecting the best interests of the child, when he himself publicly recognizes that schools cannot guarantee the safety of all students in the face of the "scourge" of violence and harassment and that the data Officials establish the infinitesimal nature of the risk situations initially invoked to justify this reform.

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