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School autonomy. Danger!

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Autonomy: A liberal management for a two-tier school

Francis COCQ is National Secretary of Education of the Left Party

Francis DASP is Secretary General of the Prometheus-AGAUREPS

Like Physician's Imaginary Invalid by Molière advocating bloodletting for any remedy, the education system Diafoirus cry in a Pavlovian "autonomy! "When we speak School. The autonomy of the university promoted by the LRU of August 10, 2007 represented only the trial run, which now are primary and secondary are in the crosshairs!

January 12, Christian Nique, in charge of an initial six-month evaluation of the device CLEAR (colleges and high schools for innovation, ambition and achievement) implemented in 105 schools, was so eager to announce the generalization of it to 249 colleges and 1725 schools for next fall. Program: recruitment of teachers "on profile" target contract for the establishment, multi-disciplinarity for teachers, sharing teachers between primary et le privé, latitude laissée dans la DHG (dotation horaire globale) pour aménager le temps scolaire et les enseignements eux-mêmes ! Soyons clairs justement : cette manœuvre ne vise rien moins que lancer à grande échelle l’autonomie des établissements. Avec tout ce qu’elle porte en elle comme atteintes à l’Ecole de la République.

L’autonomie signifie d’abord mise en concurrence des établissements scolaires, en parfaite cohérence avec la suppression de la carte scolaire : la liberté d’inscrire ses enfants dans l’établissement de son choix sera dès when recognized parents. Perspective totally illusory, because the logic of this provision will necessarily lead to a radical inversion: what will ultimately institutions (some of those receiving initial comparative advantages) who choose their students, while others will be reduced to accommodate students unwanted or for whom it will be too difficult to extract themselves from their roots territorial or social affiliation. At the same time, it is clear the benefits granted to a growing number of private education (95% religious) as they prepare to tackle voraciously to this huge market institutions which is offered on a platter.

Will to grant powers to the principals about it aims to turn them into entrepreneurs, particularly in terms of personnel management and course of their careers. All this in defiance of the statutes as confirmed by the recent departure of Christian Jacob. The ability to hire and lay off staff would crown the new building on behalf of the tropism of a management managerial adorned with every virtue.

The empowerment also promotes interference of local authorities and private interests (politicians, business leaders and notables of all kinds) in the functioning of the school. It's going down a secular trend: the school was built by a distancing from any form of beneficial pressures of consumerism and the actions of local feudal patronage. At a distance which meant taking into account the priority of general interest to the detriment of private and particularistic claims that the intrusions induce done.

Les incidences dans le domaine pédagogique ne sont pas moindres. Le but recherché est le démantèlement du cadre national qui structure jusqu’à présent notre système éducatif, et ce en dépit des entorses qui lui ont été faites au cours des dernières années : programmes et examens nationaux, modalités de recrutement des enseignants. La réussite à un concours accorde aux professeurs un statut protecteur indispensable à un exercice empreint de sérénité de leurs fonctions. C’est précisément ce statut, qui est la garantie du service public et donc de l’intérêt Generally, we are looking to trim methodically by all means.

Takes shape a new management style based on generalization of contracting, which depend allocation of resources made available to schools. These means are based on the achievement of contract objectives determined by agreement with the higher authorities in return for an obligation of results. The expected negative effects are not very difficult to decipher. The system will by the cumulative effect of institutions that will be better off in ability to achieve aisément leurs objectifs, offrant par ce biais le cadre idéal à une contractualisation à double vitesse.

Pour y remédier, la tentation sera grande aux établissements en difficulté (ou tout simplement et de manière plus prosaïque à la recherche de financements supplémentaires) de promouvoir une réussite factice au prix d’un abaissement des exigences et des ambitions. Une fois de plus la regrettable confusion entre démocratisation et massification sera opérée, les aspects comptables quantitatifs l’emportant par nécessité sur les préoccupations qualitatives de l’enseignement dispensé.

Autonomy is certainly not a neutral measure. It should not be confused with the academic freedom already exists and provides many opportunities for action for those who want to use it wisely. autonomy lies at the heart of neoliberal ideology . It generates an almost mechanical corollary of liberalism: a significant increase in inequality establishing a "two-tier school." Denounce the true face of the self, terrible smoke and mirrors at once a means and purpose Business School to destroy the Republic. It is not the solution, but a cause and a symptom of the problem.