Abstract

During the struggle of Spring 2003, teachers had to face questions which are essential both for themselves and for the future of schools. Confronted simultaneously with the establishment of a transnational state and with a transfer of decision-making power toward territorial communities, they must revise their old ideological models and to survive, they must confront these models with realities on the ground, which some of them are already exploring. But it was above all on the occasion of the struggle over the exams that the Republican structure, founded on the morality of work, revealed its obsolescence. The teaching world must henceforth responsibly consider its political role in the disaster of social selection