How does a local elected official in charge of school districting react when he is told that the National Education statistics have delivered their verdict and make his community a small educational Johannesburg full of ghettos for the poor and/or ghettos for the rich? There are the surprised like Gaëlle Rougier, EELV assistant for education of the Rennes intermunicipal community, the second most segregated French agglomeration in terms of its schools, not really happy with this bad publicity given to its virtuous ecological and united metropolis. There are the secretive little ones like the elected representatives of Angoulême and Charente, as aware of the problem as of the poverty of their record who, at first, try to be forgotten in the back row, before deciding to receive our reporter in large delegation.
And then, conversely, there are those who assume and anticipate our questions. Benjamin Vételé, miscellaneous left departmental adviser and deputy for education of Blois, prefecture of Loir-et-Cher. “Yes, I know what you are going to tell me: the ZUP schools are the equivalent of the northern districts of Marseille. We are confronted with growing precariousness coupled with cultural communitarianism, and the functioning of the school system only reinforces this. »
The observation may be surprising in the former stronghold of Jack Lang, best known for its festival Les Rendez-vous de l’histoire, its socialist meetings and its magnificent Renaissance castle. But, according to Mr.
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