Question 19922 — secondary education

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Mr. Bernard Reynès draws the attention of the Minister of National Education and Youth to the question of teaching the languages ​​of France and in particular Provençal. According to article 75-1 of the Constitution of the Fifth French Republic, “Regional languages ​​belong to the heritage of France”. Regional languages ​​are therefore heritage languages ​​and it is for this reason that they deserve a special status, distinct from that of foreign languages. He alerts the Minister to the fundamental incompatibility between the article of the Constitution previously cited and the high school reform set out in Decree No. 2018-614 of July 16, 2018. Several provisions of this decree are denounced by teachers of Provençal as well as by regionalist associations which highlight the absence of the mention "Provençal" in the title of the option and its reduction to a single language, Occitan. Furthermore, we cannot claim to contribute to the maintenance of regional languages ​​while reducing their bonus to the baccalaureate, this for all languages ​​of France combined. However, this is indeed the purpose of this decree and what it wishes to alert the Minister to. Finally, the number of hours allocated to regional languages ​​(also called “hourly allocation”) must not, as is currently the case, vary depending on the establishment. Regional languages ​​deserve a fixed time allocation which would put them on an equal footing with the provision of foreign language teaching. Without this, this decree can only be harmful to the Provençal language and contribute to students' disaffection with regional languages ​​in general, leading to their disappearance. He asks him if the Government intends to reverse this decree and what it intends to do to preserve the teaching of regional languages ​​in France.

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