Question 2498 — illiteracy

Summary

Ms. Marie-Pierre Rixain draws the attention of the Minister of National Education to the importance of an integrated, coordinated and effective policy to combat illiteracy. This scourge today concerns 2.5 million people in France who, according to the definition given by the National Agency for the Fight against Illiteracy, have not acquired sufficient mastery of reading, writing, calculation and basic skills to be autonomous in simple everyday situations. Furthermore, this already alarming observation can be supplemented by the fact that without being strictly illiterate, 20% of French people have a low level of reading and writing. Illiteracy thus strongly impacts the daily lives of the people concerned, but also their social and professional lives. 40% of illiterate people in France are unemployed and those who are occupying one must often develop adaptation strategies to protect themselves from society's view of what can be experienced as a handicap and perceived as shame. The causes of illiteracy are multiple, combinatorial and inherent to the experiences of individuals. Among them, the educational factor is essential and the French school system must place learning and mastery of fundamentals at the heart of its project, knowing how to read, write, count and respect others, and this was the Minister's roadmap for this 2017 school year. But school is not the only one responsible and it is important that the fight against illiteracy combines social, family, territorial and health aspects with the educational question to both prevent illiteracy but also remedy it for those who already experience it on a daily basis. Also, she questions him about the measures it plans to take to specifically combat illiteracy in schools and the possibility of initiating a major interministerial and systemic plan to combat illiteracy.

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