The situation of vocational high schools "is unacceptable", says Macron

Emmanuel Macron estimated on Friday September 1 that the situation of vocational high schools was "unacceptable", but that there was "no fatality" in "keeping the same number of dropouts", during a visit to a vocational high school in 'Orange (Vaucluse) for the pre-re-entry of teachers.

"The situation is unacceptable, because it is that at the bottom of the house arrest that I denounced six years ago, of a lot of injustice and family determinism", affirmed the head of state.

"We know that we have many of our young people who are oriented in professional high school, not always by choice, but because they did not in fact succeed in college and that it is the fruit of a dropout which has started before", he added, in front of teachers from the Argensol high school and local business leaders who hire young people from this high school.

"We had not touched this industry for decades. And I think that, moreover, if it affected many more children of political, media or other leaders, we would have done it much earlier," he said. -he throws.

In May, the president presented the reform of the vocational high school in Saintes (Charente-Maritime), one of his campaign promises in 2022. The objective is to strengthen the attractiveness of these sectors, by giving access to more training. qualifying, to improve the professional integration of young people and to fight against dropping out of school.

In particular, it provides for the creation of new measures against dropping out and for the integration of young people, the creation of "business offices" in high schools or the remuneration of high school students during their internships.

Stressing that "we still have many of our courses which either do not lead to a diploma or do not lead to a job", with on average "40% of our young people who will have a job in the six months following their diploma" at baccalaureate level, the Head of State affirmed that in this new school year, "there is an unprecedented commitment of the nation for the sectors, the students you serve".

"There is no fatality in saying that in vocational high school, we should keep the same number of dropouts," he continued.

A third of high school students, or approximately 621.000 students, are educated in a vocational high school.