RIP France: French Minister of education wants arabic lang taught in 1st grade

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Najat Vallaud-Belkacem: "The teaching of Arabic will be done at the CP"

On BFM TV, the Minister wished to end the controversy about new languages.

Arabic as a living language, from primary school ... That is necessarily controversial. This morning on BFM TV, the Education Minister Najat Vallaud-Belkacem confirmed his teaching. "Arabic Teaching will be done from the PC, once we have the means to do it," she said, adding she wanted "a diversity of supply of foreign languages." Of course, no question of imposing and Arabic will be part of a set of languages ​​offered in some schools, from English to Chinese, via German or Italian.

Last week, the minister had seen red when the Republican MP questioned on the subject: "The urgency of our culture to be better shared, asserts with his lifestyle, history and language . Do not you think that the introduction of the Community languages ​​in the curriculum will encourage communalism that undermines national cohesion? " Annie Genevard launched.

The response was immediate: "I believe that in our country, if there is one thing to do is diversify the languages ​​that students learn in school, because all these languages ​​have their legitimacy and interest. " But the controversy continues to swell.

    MP Annie Genevard (LR) has just explained that the Arabic language was a community.
    No Madam, ... https://t.co/XHPZmU0f8V

    - Christophe Sirugue (@chsirugue) May 25, 2016

    . @RMCinfo Be specific. These are #ELCO (Portuguese, Serbo-Croatian, Arabic Morocco, Tunisia, Algerian, Spanish, Turkish, Italian) https://t.co/QKDOjKOHds

    - Nassira El Moaddem (@NassiraELM) May 31, 2016