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France: Schoolteachers Walk Out Over Shake-Up "Not pedagogical, but bureaucratic." Staff, The Morning Star, London, 20 May 2015 French teachers walked out yesterday over proposed changes to the education system they consider divisive. Ministers mooted the changes after a 2012 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) report rated the French education system one of the most unequal in the world, with huge gaps between rich and poor. The Socialist Party government wants to add multidisciplinary classes and cut a bilingual programme. Teachers say the plan will pit instructors against each other in the multidisciplinary courses, creating discord that will hurt students. "It will create a battle between teachers," teacher Jean-Remi Girard told France Television. Unions said more than half of teachers went on strike. In an open letter to Education Minister Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, teachers said that the changes "will not be pedagogical, no matter what their promoters say, but bureaucratic." From: http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-7246-France-Schoolteachers-walk-out-ove r-divisive-shake-up#.VVyJbvmqqkq -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
