At each start of the school year from now on, national education must face thousands of high school students without assignment due to lack of place in the sector of their choice. There were 13,800 of them in mid-September nationally and the situation can last until the All Saints’ Day holidays for the most complex cases. Faced with this phenomenon often denounced, in particular by the Defender of Rights, the Versailles rectorate has found a new solution: educate these students in a private establishment under contract.
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A first agreement was signed with Catholic education in Val-d’Oise at the start of the 2023 school year and a second was created in Essonne at the start of the 2024 school year. Result: during the fall, 21 students without assignment began their schooling in a Catholic establishment in Val-d’Oise and 10 in Essonne. There were 35 in Val-d’Oise at the previous school year. In both departments, “around 800 high school students” did not have an assignment at the start of the school year, according to the rectorate.
“National education asked us to welcome these students on the floor. It seemed logical and normal to us to do so, within the limits of available places, given our public service mission”declares Gérald Omnès, the diocesan director (responsible for Catholic education) of Essonne. “This agreement contributes to the social diversity of our establishments, by welcoming students who would not have naturally come to us”agrees Jean-Marc Naudi-Bonnemaison, the diocesan director of Val-d’Oise.
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This partnership only concerns professional sectors, where matching the high school offerings and the wishes of students is a complex equation. Most of the fifty or so students who benefit from the system are enrolled in assistance, organizational management, trade and sales or customer relations courses, which are particularly saturated among the public, and which successive governments would like to reduce in favor of industrial courses. , more job providers. However, places remained vacant in the tertiary sectors of private high schools of the two departments concerned.
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