Family education: a parliamentary report calls for a return to a “reinforced” declaration regime

A freedom “unjustly sacrificed on the altar of the fight against separatism”, “insufficient management” of National Education, “blatant territorial inequality of treatment”, “disastrous collateral effects”, families confronted with “a feeling of arbitrariness”... Written by Josiane Corneloup (LR) and Vincent Trébuchet (UDR), the parliamentary report on the reform of family education (IEF) is of great importance. severity. Made public on October 7, it recommends an almost complete return to the system as it existed before the start of the 2022 school year. Until this date, it was enough for families to indicate once a year to their town hall and their academy that they were educating their children at home, without having to specify why.

The law of August 24, 2021 changed the situation. Families must now request authorization using one of the four permitted grounds. The IEF is no longer an educational method among others, but a derogation, a departure from the road to be justified. And, on the part of the National Education services, to be strongly limited. “By brutalizing a more than centuries-old right,” regret the deputies. Where does parental authority end? To what extent can the State interfere in the lives of citizens? How can we restore families’ confidence in schools when their level is collapsing? Is schooling preferable in itself and for all children or is it…