France’s Education nationale no longer repairs its schools. It paints over the cracks, renames failure and turns gaps in learning into “pathways”.
PISA 2025 results, falling standards, a teacher shortage, buried reforms: nobody is lying, every indicator is green, and pupils keep dropping out.
“Paint over grime equals clean”: a biting anatomy of a system that would rather improve its grade than its work.
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PUNCHLINE PISA 2025: French schools paint over their failures while standards collapse.
Find the full transcript of this episode, along with all the sources and plenty more, at: Painting over grime equals cleanliness