“NOTWe are faced with a totally unique and unprecedented situation “, immediately poses Valérie Degoy, elected from the National Syndicate of Secondary Education (Snes). For the Professor of Life and Earth Sciences at Pierre-Corneille High School in Rouen, who teaches two classes in terminal “ the lessons are first on site, in the classroom ” Since the school closed its doors to students, “ the third quarter was completely neutralized. So I didn’t do multiple choice questionnaires or other remote tests. And I don’t have a problem with it because I would have had a conscience case. There are pupils in difficulty whose problems we do not know at home. “
It’s a catchphrase, a carrot that the students know well: you have to work to get the precious sesame of the baccalaureate. But faced with the neutralization of the tests, it is the average of the continuous control which allows the obtaining of the diploma.
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“ I’ll go to catch up “
“ Honestly, we’re not too knowledgeable about ratings. I do not know for example if my last white bin will be taken into account “, worries Emma, a redoubled 19-year-old in high school at the Aristide-Briand high school in Evreux. I had an average of 10.6 in the second quarter, so I prefer to work for my bac, just in case. “ For Zolboo, a student in the ES terminal at Camille-Saint-Saëns, the announcement of the neutralization of the written examinations threw a cold. “ I already missed my bac last year, and there I thought to revise from April, give everything to learn, but suddenly I can not even make up for my bad grades “, worries the student of Mongolian origin, who arrived on French territory ten years ago. “ I have an average of 8.69, so I’ll go to catch up. We are seven in the same situation in the class. Just the idea of missing the bac again scares me. “
The cleaver would be double, for the high school student, since the section below, the first, is experimenting with the new bac formula: “ Terminals get away with the old baccalaureate, but for the first, it’s pain in horror “, sums up Valérie Degoy from Snes. At Pierre-Corneille high school, Sandra Glatigny teaches in two first year classes, which, unlike terminales, should have a face-to-face test: French speaking. “ My core business is human relationships. Being deprived of my voice is very frustrating. So I resorted to My virtual class of Cned. (Editor’s note: the equivalent of Zoom for students). I managed to hang up a few students with this device. But we just haven’t heard from some of the students, notes the teacher. The main teacher and school life revive them, but hey … Some have particularly difficult conditions. You imagine writing a dissertation using only your phone ? ”
At François-I High School, at Haven, Lily, pupil of first grade, did not have any training for oral French: “ We had to have mock tests then confinement arrived. We come, although we really pick up, overall, we are all demotivated. “
Gilles Amanieu, principal of the Rouen high school Jeanne-d’Arc for four years, prefers to see the glass half full: “ We are certainly in a destabilizing situation, but the results are rather positive. We have about 95 connected students %. “ However, he concedes “ that the time of the distance begins to be heavy “. According to the school director, “ the juries will pay much more attention to the school books, and the teachers will be able to value the positive aspects of a student beyond a simple note “.
“ I have been a teacher for thirty years and I can tell you that continuous monitoring risks opening the door to all inequalities “, refutes Valérie Degoy, of the Snes union. ” Harmonization committees will for example be appointed by the rectors to smooth the differences in ratings between establishments. And then there are always some pupils in difficulty who start cramming the last weeks, and who arrive at better results. For them, it will be very complicated. “
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“Not on the same scheme as May 68”
Laurent Mussard is the chief of exams and competitions of the Académie de Normandie. He heads a department of 100 people, divided between Rouen and Caen. Since the neutralization of the written baccalaureate exams, he has worked to safeguard the value of the exam.
From government announcements, what is your job ?
“I already want to say that it is the written tests that are canceled, but not the exam: the rules for continuous assessment are there. We are currently in a very heavy work of adaptation and reorganization since it is necessary to change the whole of the administrative rules of exams and competitions. We have to work out new procedures to be ready in about a month. ”
What impact will the cancellation of written exams have on student records? ?
“I would tend to think that this method will smooth out the results. The bin will not reveal any surprises, good or bad. Students who demonstrate a correct course will not have the unpleasant surprise of having failed the tests, while the student who has had a more chaotic and difficult education will not be able to count on the saving result of the test final. ”
Academically, without the written tests, the year 2020 is a year off ?
“No, because it’s a substantive job to find the representative note. I am at the heart of the work with the inspection teams and school administrators, and we will be on results obtained in a different way, but in my opinion more representative of the level of the students. Continuous monitoring also means that there will be less of a dip or peak effect in the rating. ”
Regarding the progress of the baccalaureate, what differences between the pupils of first and final years ?
“The major difference is that the former are experimenting with the new system and that they are the only ones to have the oral French test while the terminales are exclusively on continuous testing. ”
How will the catch-up be organized ?
“The catch-up will happen in exactly the same way as in previous years, for students whose average is between 8 and 9.99. The only difference is that the topics chosen will focus on pre-containment programs. ”
Will harmonization commissions be encouraged to be benevolent ?
“I don’t like the word benevolent because it carries the idea that it would be ‘Fan School’. But not everyone can win, it would lose all its value to the diploma. Our job is to make sure that this year’s baccalaureate has the same value as in previous and following years. 2020 is not on the same pattern as May 68, because we have continuous control tests and we can claim representative scores. We are currently reflecting on the harmonization committee, but its fundamental role will still be to take into account the very specific conditions, which mean that since March 13, students are not in class. ”
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