Irrational obstinacy

The text analyses a note written in 2019 by two inspectors general on Diwan schools, which specialise in immersive Breton language teaching. Paradoxically, although it recognises the effectiveness of this method — which enables the majority of pupils to become bilingual while maintaining good results in French and mathematics — the note recommends its abolition in favour of equal teaching hours, which is much less effective. The author denounces the legal, semantic and pedagogical distortions that punctuate this report, which he believes is marked by ‘illusio’: the authors confuse real bilingualism with artificial time sharing. Behind these inconsistencies, he sees above all a political manoeuvre, intended to provide Jean-Michel Blanquer with arguments to counter the Molac law in favour of regional languages. This obstinacy in limiting immersion appears, in a context where Breton is endangered, to be an ideological and nationalist approach rather than a rational one.