Question 6271 — secondary education

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Mr. Michel Sala draws the attention of the Minister of National Education and Youth to the future of technological education in 6th grade. According to a memo from the general directorate of school education (Dgesco) dated January 21, 2023, note addressed to rectors and Dasen: science and technology teaching in sixth grade could be reduced to 3 hours per week. Thus reducing by one hour per week the technological education program in 6th grade. This hour would benefit from consolidation and deepening in French and mathematics. This would apply from the start of the 2023 school year but would therefore not modify the overall hourly allocation (DGH) for colleges. This information is worrying on several levels. The first is that once again teaching staff learn through the press, from significant changes affecting their working conditions. A method poorly received by representative organizations and which generates a lot of uncertainty. Secondly, it would be regrettable to note that the teaching of technology appears to be an adjustment measure for the Ministry of National Education. Advanced measurement does not provide any additional means. On the contrary, it questions the future of teachers of this subject. This ministerial improvisation does not offer any guarantee as to the maintenance of the service time of technology teaching. In addition, the heads of establishments having the freedom to organize services as they see fit, the responsibility for difficulties on the ground will fall on them. As a result, many positions risk being put at risk with additional services on several establishments or even with contract workers who will lose their jobs. Technological sciences, already diminished in their resources in recent years, continue to take a back seat. This risked pedagogically conditioning the absence of specific tools essential to the challenges of the coming decades. The energy transition necessary in view of global warming requires a better supervised educational concentration of this theme to provide the understanding of the issues that society needs. It is essential to develop a taste for this vocation among young students with resources that match the challenges. He asks him what he plans to do so that the teaching of technology is not penalized by the implementation of the “new 6th grade” system.

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