Institute Says Education, Culture, and Transmission Are Central to France's Decline

The report focuses on education, culture, and transmission, which the institute says are central to France's decline. Key measures criticized include the 1975 Haby law establishing the collège unique, which the institute says promoted egalitarianism, lowered academic standards, and worsened inequalities. Report coordinators Jean de Belot and Tarick Dali, along with institute director Jean-Thomas Lesueur, argue that the pillars have been sapped, citing the reduction of French history to republican history, the decline of French language teaching, abandonment of cultural transmission, and refusal to acknowledge Christianity's role in the nation's construction.

The institute also criticizes what it calls an invented historiography of secular migrations and the idea of France as an empty, weak, open country that exists only through what others bring to it. The report lists these as the main decisions concerning school, culture, and transmission. The Haby law, adopted on July 11, 1975, established a single middle school for all students after primary school, eliminating early tracking and imposing identical instruction from 6th to 3rd grade, while delaying orientation.