Curiously enough, the places of highest insecurity happen to be places where the working class live, making it harder to obtain that education which is the ticket to equality in this economic system (and likely, alternatives to it as well).

As a parent who will be having children in the same system next year, and as a friend of about half dozen teachers in the system, I'm actually not displeased by this. It's not my first choice in terms of meeting the challenge, but I recognize that it does in fact respond to an actual challenge, and would suggest that unless we start continue to be serious about this, both rhetorically and substantively, we will continue to lose the battle of ideas re: security.

Personally, I think M.-G. Buffet's proposals on this were the most serious and probably the best for children, but it is clear that there was no public will for this approach (look at her score) because it costs money. So, if you want security, and you want it on the cheap (incidentally, I think that's Sarko's unwritten motto) you get what we are getting now.

Not optimal, but imho better than doing nothing at all. Instead of decrying it, we need to present the alternative.

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