IMPACT OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON THIRD YEAR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN AN ATHENÉE IN FRENCH-SPEAKING BELGIUM: TOWARDS AN EXPERIMENTATION OF THE "TRONC COMMUN" BEFORE THE TIME

Abstract

The pandemic period changes the valuation methods of the Wallonie-Bruxelles Federation schools. In fact, at the end of the 2019-2020 academic year, all secondary students in the second year were automaticaly upgraded in the next level, while normaly a selection takes place at this moment in the schooling of pupils. How do third-year general education students feel this reality on a daily basis has been the question asked by the field research. At the same time raised the question about the "tronc commun" and de facto, the question about the scolary repetition.

Keywords

• covid-19
• grade repetition
• core curriculum
• phenomenological interpretative analysis.