Ihe Affelnet procedure has the function, after the third class, of assigning Parisian pupils to the 45 high schools of the capital according to a points system. Except Henri-IV and Louis-le-Grand who, until then, chose their high school students on file. This should no longer be the case in the fall. At this announcement, in the two colleges of these schools, certain WhatsApp groups of parents of students created at the time of Covid-19 changed their tone and subject to rage against this reform. And here are the parents of the students of the Henri-IV college (about a quarter of whom were then entering high school) who became rebellious, mobilized for “save merit”. All these years of carefully thought-out strategies, all these efforts to register for the right college, all these private lessons to reach 19 rather than 16… all for nothing?
How do we recognize them?
At the first information meeting, they asked why we couldn’t start Latin and Greek in 6and. They were happy that the math teacher was doing the program for 5and in 6and. In 3and, their son freaked out when he got a 15 in a test. In the class of their offspring, two or three children, it seems, would not take private lessons. They know the class average for each test and geolocate their children on their phone. They say their anger has nothing to do with their own case, but with Affelnet in general, and yet they’ve waited until this year to get pissed off. They know the software’s point system inside out. They do not understand that the notes do not have more weight, are outraged at the idea that a 16 can weigh as much as a 19.
They are indignant at the idea that the points awarded according to the social positioning index (“the IPS bonus”) of students, determined according to the socio-professional classes of the parents of the original college, can penalize their children. When they attack this system, they take their examples from colleges other than those of their children, because all of this has nothing to do with defending their interests, but with defending the “republican merit”. They say they are mobilized so that excellence is not the prerogative of the private sector. They have in stock several variations of the sentence of the candidate LR Valérie Pécresse: “It is not by breaking what works that we are going to fix what does not work. » They are willing to sign petitions or do sit-ins, but ask if we can anonymize the signatures or blur the faces so that there is no consequence on the schooling of their children.
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