Guest of the Grand Rendez-vous Europe 1/ CNews/ Les Echos, Eric Zemmour returned to the controversial remarks of the Minister of Education, Amélie Oudéa-Castera, who declared having educated her children in a private establishment following the dysfunctions of their public school. For the president of Reconquest!, the new minister is hiding behind false excuses.
“The minister does like all French people”. During her first trip, the Minister of Education stirred up widespread anger among teaching unions on Friday by justifying her decision to transfer her children to the private sector by her “frustration” at the “packages of hours which were not seriously replaced” in the public. A declaration which had relaunched the eternal debate opposing private schools to public schools in France. Faced with the controversy, Amélie Oudéa-Castera apologized. Guest of the Grand Rendez-vous d’Europe 1/ CNews/ Les Echos, Eric Zemmour described the minister’s reversal as “immediate submission” before giving his point of view on the school system in France.
“I believe that today the private sector has paradoxically become the repository of old and excellent methods that the public once used,” declared the candidate for the 2022 presidential election. “Parents put their children in the private sector to avoid the ravages of the drop in levels”, he added.
“The underlying subject is the collapse of the school system”
Eric Zemmour also wanted to refocus the debate. For him, the debate between private and public schools no longer holds in 2024. “We need to take a step back, the real underlying issue is the collapse of the school system,” he said.
On the fact that a minister admits to having placed her children in the private sector because of “hours not replaced”, the president of Reconquête! can’t seem to act shocked. “She clings to something marginal, even if it is annoying to see hours not being replaced,” he explained. For the essayist, the real reasons are found in “violence, wokism, and gender theory” which penetrates public establishments.