Two ideologies oppose Jean-Michel Blanquer and Pap Ndiaye. It is this decided change at the head of the Ministry of Education that worries Jean-Pierre Chevènement, 83, himself a former Minister of National Education from 1984 to 1986. Presidential support for Emmanuel Macronhe warned on Monday against “the burial of the policy implemented by Jean-Michel Blanquer for five years”, after the appointment of Pap Ndiaye.
“There is no surer method to disorient a large institution like National Education than to entrust it in turn to two ministers whose philosophies of the State would oppose”, warned the former minister of François Mitterrand in a press release. “This is what the school has suffered from for half a century, with the results we are seeing,” continued Jean-Pierre Chevènement.
The appointment on Friday of Pap Ndiaye, a historian specializing in the United States and minorities, appeared to be the main surprise of the new government, led by Élisabeth Borne, due to very different positions from the previous Minister of National Education, Jean-Michel Blank. While the latter regularly expressed concern about “woke” phenomena or the “Islamo-leftist”Pap Ndiaye has, on several occasions, doubted the validity and the very reality of these concepts.
Follower of the Blanquer method
“Concern for the long term and the preservation of the values of knowledge and transmission go hand in hand”, emphasizes Jean-Pierre Chevènement, welcoming the reforms carried out by Jean-Michel Blanquer, of which he was a fervent supporter: “Duplication of small classes in difficult neighborhoods, emphasis on fundamental learning from the earliest ages of schooling in order to fight against inequalities, promotion and defense of secular values, openness of the school, universalism, emphasis on what we have in common “.
“Do we think that the differentialism promoted by the American left (through the Representative Council of Black Associations, for example) can contribute to republican equality? “, he asks again, in reference to the CRAN, federation of French associations which militates for the defense of the black populations of France, of which Pap Ndiaye was a member of the scientific council.