At a press conference on Monday 24 June, Jordan Bardella, president of the Rassemblement National, presented his programme for the start of the 2024 school year, saying he wanted to introduce a “big bang for authority” in schools

Presenting the measures of the Rassemblement National, the candidate for Prime Minister expressed his wish to make school “an inviolable asylum” from the start of the next school year. “I want schools to be sanctuaries where conflict has no place, and that means a big bang for authority from September onwards,” he said.

Among the proposals, Jordan Bardella mentioned a ban on mobile phones in lower and upper secondary schools, stressing that “our schools must become zones of digital sobriety” because of the impact of screens on pupils’ concentration and behaviour.

He also insisted that teachers should be obliged to be polite and that experiments with school uniforms should continue. “Personally, I support the introduction of uniforms in primary and lower secondary schools,” he added.

The MEP also affirmed his desire to “put an end to the ideology of ‘no waves'” and to strengthen the protection of teachers against violence, threats and insults. “We owe this to the thousands of teachers intimidated, pressurised or attacked every day, and to Dominique Bernard and Samuel Paty,” he said.

Jordan Bardella concluded by assuring that “the State will systematically stand by its teachers,” announcing the introduction of minimum sanctions, disciplinary councils and specialised centres for disruptive or harassing pupils.