Question 7976 — fundamental rights

Summary

Ms. Laure Miller draws the attention of the Minister of State, Minister of National Education, Higher Education and Research, to the policy of class closures implemented in connection with the demographic decline. The latest ranking of the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) published at the end of 2023 showed a significant and unprecedented drop since 2000 in the results of French students in mathematics and reading comprehension. This observation has caused a real awareness of the governments which have succeeded one another since the beginning of 2024. The Prime Minister thus recalled, in his general policy declaration: “But how can we accept that the French school, which was the first in the world, sees itself classified at the rank which it is today in mathematics as in reading [...]. This is for me the greatest failures.” If awareness is there, many teachers and parents wonder when they see that classes continue to close, even though France has the highest average number of students per class among OECD countries in elementary and middle school. Many consider that the drop in birth rates could be an opportunity to increase the supervision rate, which we know has a direct impact on the quality of teaching and student achievement. The success of doubling classes in REP and REP+ zones is proof of this. The MP is very regularly questioned on the subject, while several of the schools in her constituency could undergo class closures at the start of the next school year, in particular the Ruisselet, Pouply, Galilée and Hippodrome schools in Reims. She asks him to change this strict policy of class closures according to the school map and to take advantage, where relevant, of a downward trend in the number of students to improve the supervision rate and the quality of teaching.

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