Nearly 300 people gathered this Sunday, December 13, at 2 p.m., Place de l’Université, in Strasbourg, to defend the right to family education (IEF).
“Happy children are better educated,” says Marie, mother of two children. “We have chosen to offer a more peaceful environment to our children,” reports a mother of four, originally from Colmar. Family education makes it possible to adapt to each child’s profile, at their own pace, but also to the siblings to evolve together, according to each person’s interests. If they went to school, they couldn’t have so many extracurricular activities … “
Abolition of the right to family education
In his speech of October 2, Emmanuel Macron announced that he intended to fight against separatism by removing the right to educate in family. “The amalgamation is neither acceptable nor worthy. Family education is a freedom, a right that has existed for 150 years, ”explains a father of three children.
Indeed, in the bill, home schooling would no longer be subject to a simple declaration to the town hall and to the academic inspection, but to a request for exemption examined by the National Education, and this from the start of the school year. 2021. The child would have to meet very specific criteria, such as having an illness, being disabled, or even a high-level athlete. This in order to stop school dropout.
A decision that goes “against the essential principles” for the child
Children First (LED’A), an association founded in 1988 to bring together non-schooling families, is opposed to this ban “because it goes against the principles which are essential to it: respect for the rhythm, for of interest and aptitudes specific to each child ”.
The very festive procession, bringing together parents and children, left the University Square towards the Republic Square. After a stop in front of the prefecture, the families went under police escort to the court.
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