Question 18095 — teaching

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Ms. Sabine Rubin alerts the Minister of National Education and Youth to the worrying situation of parents of scholarship students in the context of the dematerialization of State services. The MP was recently questioned by a municipal councilor from the 9th district of Seine-Saint-Denis who informed her of the worrying situation of a significant number of families faced with the dematerialization of certain state services. More precisely, this concerns the system relating to scholarship students, an essential republican tool to correct certain inequalities in access to higher education, which are particularly glaring in France. This system and the demand for equality it carries are being undermined by the process of dematerialization undertaken by certain State services. In fact it is no longer possible to remove a paper scholarship file from the school, the process now being carried out entirely via the internet. However, a significant number of low-income families do not have access to the Internet at home, or do not have sufficient training in computer skills, which hinders access to scholarships for their children. Thus the number of scholarship requests has fallen considerably since the implementation of this dematerialization, at the risk of penalizing schools whose REP classification includes the number of scholarship students. This is therefore a real “double punishment”: we complicate access to the scholarship file for low-income families and we risk ultimately penalizing educational establishments by biasing the REP allocation criteria. The Minister is not unaware that the Defender of Rights has published in January of this year a report relating to the consequences of dematerialization in access to public services. The observation is overwhelming: the digital divide doubles the social divide by creating a breakdown in equality in access to public services, which are the primary asset of those who have nothing. Nearly 19% of French people do not have a computer at home, without even including those who do not feel not “legitimate” or “capable” of mastering the IT tool. Still according to Mr. Toubon, “digitization has been done in a forced march, that is to say that we are moving forward, but we are letting people fall by the wayside”. This situation is intolerable, contrary to republican principles, a factor in the aggravation of educational inequalities which weigh heavily on everyone's social trajectory. In light of this context, she therefore wishes find out if it intends to reinstate in the short term the possibility of collecting a paper scholarship file within the educational establishment.

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