Only survivor of bac exams, the oral French, an early test reserved for high school students, has not yet been canceled, despite the health crisis linked to the epidemic of Covid-19. Will it remain maintained? “If the high schools reopen, there are great possibilities that it is possible, said the Minister ofEducation Jean-Michel Blanquer, May 18, on RTL. We can respect the barrier gestures for an oral. I want to send high school students work signals, to work on their French texts. “
Everything will therefore depend on health conditions. When will the final decision be made? “It will be after the Prime Minister’s intervention on May 28”, we are told in the ministry, without further details.
“It is absurd to think that we can prepare them without seeing them”
Meanwhile, teachers are tearing their hair out to prepare their students. “It is getting more and more difficult, says Marie Antoine, French teacher in Mulhouse. The first month of confinement, we were making good progress via the virtual class, the pupils participated, but since the Easter holidays, they are fewer and no one participates by voice. I often speak in a vacuum… ”
The Haut-Rhin teacher does not blame her students. Their high school has been closed since March 9. “Eleven weeks is a long time. At their age, even a good student ends up being carried… ” And when she asked them to do a white oral video, “Only ten out of thirty-three students volunteered in General First, and only four out of 28 in my STMG technology class”, sorry Marie Antoine, who does not want “Send them straight into the wall”.
“It is absurd to think that we can prepare them without seeing them. And it is inconsistent to tell us, on the one hand, that the third trimester scores do not count, and on the other hand, that we must prepare them and finish the program “, notes the teacher, who expressed her dismay to Jean-Michel Blanquer, by posting a video on YouTube.
Will the minister cancel the test and turn it into continuous testing? This is what all unions are asking for. Just like the French Association for the Teaching of French, whose petition collected 85,000 signatures. “This test would create a very strong inequality between the students, depending on the conditions of their confinement, denounces Viviane Youx, its president. Maintaining this test creates strong anxiety among students and their teachers. “
1st grade students launch a petition against the maintenance of French speaking. Open letter to Jean Michel Blanquer: Bac de Français 2020 – Support us! – Sign the petition! https://t.co/qOLDj53KXX via @ChangeFrance
– Viviane Youx (@Vivyoux) May 13, 2020
Anxious, Tom Durand-Janin, a student at the Guist’Hau high school in Nantes, is not, but he readily admits that the situation is ” frustrating “. He, who only managed to revise “Three texts out of fifteen”, waits “Impatiently” the minister’s speech and hopes the cancellation of the test for having “One less weight”. Besides, he continues to work diligently on other subjects to have a good school book.
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