The return to school for twelve million French students takes place this Monday, September 2, between political context and disruptions linked to the Paralympic events for the people of the Paris region.
The end of the holidays, the return of school bags. 12 million students are going back to school this Monday, September 2 in French schools, from kindergarten to high school. Teachers, for their part, did their pre-back-to-school on Friday, August 30.
Please note that students from Reunion Island and Mayotte returned to school on August 19 and August 26 respectively.
For most schoolchildren, this 2024-2025 school year will end on Saturday, July 5, 2025, to make way for the next long vacation. Before that, middle school students will have to take their brevet on Thursday, June 26 and Friday, June 27, 2025. For high school students, the early French exams will take place on Friday, June 13. The general and technological baccalaureate will begin on Monday, June 16.
A return to school in political uncertainty
If the school calendar is well defined, this return to school is marked by political uncertainty. The Prime Minister has still not been appointed by Emmanuel Macron, and in fine the new government has still not been formed.
It is therefore up to the resigning minister Nicole Belloubet to set the course this Monday, after having organized this return behind the scenes. Before leaving her place as soon as the announcement of a new government is made.
The reforms wanted by Gabriel Attal, including the “clash of knowledge” and the level groups of mathematics and French for pupils in 6th and 5th grade, will have great difficulty in being implemented because of this vagueness.
The experiment of wearing a uniform and the digital break, which allows students’ cell phones to be locked away, will take place on a small scale only, initially as an experiment.
Class composition lists
Some schoolchildren may have been disrupted during these days preceding the start of the school year: the lists detailing the composition of classes were not posted in many schools. The cause? The law on the confidentiality of digital data which no longer allows class lists to be posted in front of the school, reports La Voix du nord. The names and dates of birth of students are in fact part of the protected data.
The list can be displayed “if it is only visible from inside the school”, but not “if an ordinary passer-by can access it”, explains the Lille Academy on its website.
According to France 3, some schools have decided to inform families about their child’s placement by email while others have preferred to only display the students’ first names. Some young French people will have to wait until Monday, September 2 to find out the composition of their class.
Middle and high school students can still consult this information online in the digital workspace (ENT).
Parisian establishments disrupted by the Paralympic Games
Some disruptions are also expected for some schools in the Paris region due to the Paralympic Games. Le Parisien stated last June that the Paris region prefecture had identified 91 schools affected in Paris because they are close to the sites used for the competition.
Classes will start as planned at 8:20 a.m. in primary schools, so supervisory staff have been asked to anticipate their arrival. In secondary schools, adjustments have been made “on a case-by-case basis.”
In Seine-Saint-Denis, which is home to the Paralympic Village, three schools will be affected “significantly” for this first week back at school. A middle school is temporarily relocated to an unoccupied elementary school nearby. Students from two elementary schools will be “taken care of outside the classroom on September 3, 5 and 6 (…) to participate in activities that will take place in the city’s cultural structures or go to the Paralympic sites.”
In Yvelines and Hauts-de-Seine, timetable adjustments have been defined. Departures will be brought forward to 4 p.m. in primary schools and 3 p.m. in secondary schools.
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