Is “almost 100%” of the back-to-school allowance spent on supplies?

Pap Ndiaye has chosen to take the opposite view of his predecessor at the Ministry of Education. While a tense return to school is announced, due to the shortage of teachers and bus drivers, the minister has tried to deflate a recurring controversy at the end of the summer: that which affects the use of allowances returned by families. Several Republican deputies also tabled a bill this summer aimed at “supervise the use of the back-to-school allowance“.

Last year, the former Minister of Education Jean-Michel Blanquer revived the controversy by declaring that “if we face it, we know that there are sometimes larger purchases of flat screens in September than at other times“. Remarks which had aroused discord within the government at the time: Olivier Véran, then Minister of Solidarity and Health, had declared that he was not “shocked» if part of the allowances were not…