It will have to cut everywhere war surgery

A ccrochez - to your coudoirs ac, here is a figure who is telling the truth about the lies of the France: to the Ecole polytechnique, a student on a two and one parent prof. Yes: one in two! To reach the Summit peaks of the national school system, the cream of the cream of the elite, to integrate the beautiful positions, provided then any lifetime, it must be a child of the system, having the "decoder" only "insiders" have: teachers.

The X are not children of the leaders of the CAC 40, think again. The rich have understood for a decade now: they send their children to the London School or in American universities. In other words, they are fleeing a system which also excludes their children, except the very few who have 20 math. Do statistically France students accompanied at night by their parents, remake the courses, to help who know the channels, which are internal support. The French National Education, that of Republican equality, selection by merit, has become worse than the China: it is more promote the sons of the school party.

One in two! Proportion of the shame that otherwise look all the talk about "equal opportunities" in this country. The uptake of the Summit by the members of the party was accompanied by an abandonment by the same of the children of the lower. Almost half of the end of CM2 pupils do not have reading and calculation capabilities allowing access to autonomy. Among those left behind, 15 have severe difficulties of understanding and expression.

And any empire. According to the reading of the OECD Pisa tests, the France from the global 12erang in 2000 to 17erang in 2006. In mathematics, national pride and selection criterion, which is valued for the X is neglected for "normal" children: the France recorded the highest decline of score of OECD on the period.

The Court of Auditors comes - finally - to denounce the sinking. The results of the French education are well below those of other countries, especially to the deployed means, note the Court, which means ceased to be increased. Expenditure per student is significantly higher in France to the Japan or the Finland, for example, with far less. "It is not a problem of means", a finds Didier Migaud, the first President of the Court (which is Socialist), spraying all Union arguments.

The French failure was, yesterday, as a well hidden social shame. Today, it has become the first economic handicap for the country. It is important to understand the film: the France, like other countries of the Union, must enter a terrible period of rigor. The Government and the opposition together for once, packed us the slack on this subject: our deficit is 8 of GDP, they explain, it is of 5.5 in Germany (donor lessons wrongly), 11 in Spain, Britain, 14 in Ireland. To listen quickly and imagines that he is of his own money: 8 deficit, this is not so serious. Except that good statistics is not this one, which compares national production (1970 billion) deficit, but this one: in 2010 the State will have 267 billion euros of revenues and spending 388 billion, it spends twice more than it earns. The effort to better measure!

Therefore, long and dreadful austerity. It will have to cut everywhere, war surgery. To reduce the recessive effect of this brutal austerity, we must urgently strengthen the engines of growth. Education is the most secure of these: Robert Barro and Jong - wha Lee, economists have found passing reviewed 146 countries from 1950 to 2010 education, a good educational system on the growth performance is very strong (voxeu).

That's what the France has to be done: cut spending while renovating thoroughly the operation of public officials, to make effective the new challenges of globalization. The welfare State must be 100 times better with two times less. The first and most important sector to rebuild is the school system, which gradually started to work do well for itself.