Closure of bilingual classes: why this silence from Chesnais-Girard?

As the language policy fails, the closure of bilingual classes announced by the rectorate is a pure scandal. It raises a significant question. Why this silence from Loïg Chesnais-Girard, the primary person responsible for language policy? It is in the name of Brittany and the Breton people that his voice should be heard. His silence is a sign of the trivialization of our old country, which has become a "region" and is therefore destined to be merely a variable subject to all adjustments. If we have a President, now is the time for him to make himself heard and do the job!

Closure of bilingual classes: why this silence from Chesnais-Girard?

In Cavan, Saint-Rivoal, Carhaix, and likely elsewhere, the academic rector plans to close a bilingual class. Is the dynamism of bilingual education in Brittany so strong that we can afford to close classes?

The closure of a class in a bilingual education stream disrupts a dynamic and puts it in danger. What is the point of opening classes here and there if we are closing just as many elsewhere? Unfortunately, this is the situation for bilingual education in Brittany, as for the first time this year, the number of children enrolled in the Breton-French bilingual stream is declining.

The academic rector follows an accounting logic and does not care about the teaching of our language. It is not his priority. In fact, the opposite logic seems to prevail, as the old prejudices against our language have never left the minds of many teachers.

Brittany remains this eternal adjustment variable, and class closures in the name of declining demographics will benefit other territories.

State thinking still dominates. We have nothing to expect from the academic rector.

The most serious issue is the deafening silence of the primary person responsible for this linguistic policy, Loïg Chesnais-Girard, who must be held accountable before the Bretons.

We know his position: "It is the State that is not doing its job." Yes, but then why does it work in the Basque Country and Corsica but not here?

How could Brittany exist within the French system if its primary representative remains supremely silent or does not take action to save a Diwan school deprived of premises, like in Bourbriac?

And what if it were Loïg Chesnais-Girard who is not doing his job?

Loïg Chesnais-Girard cannot ignore the fact that he who remains silent consents. He must speak out forcefully to demand the safeguarding of bilingual classes and education in Brittany, without hiding behind the narrow competencies assigned to the region. It is in the name of the Breton people that his voice should carry!

Brittany that does not resist is a Brittany that is dying and becoming trivialized as just another "region." Brittany that remains silent is not that of the Breton people. This should be reiterated to Loïg Chesnais-Girard, who, more than ever, is part of the system, while everything collapses around us and now is the time to denounce it to chart another path. I even believe that, by his non-existence, he acts as the best supporter of the system.

We have a choice between the trivialization of Brittany into a "region" under the guise of representatives of the system like Loïg Chesnais-Girard or the emancipation of our people, which alone will save our languages.

Which path will we take?

Yvon Ollivier