À Bordeaux, la proportionnelle intégrale appliquée au conseil municipal des enfants, plus représentatif
His culinary information slipped into considerations of international politics. “It’s a bit of a problem for us. Have you heard of Brexit? The United Kingdom has left the European Union and Scotland is part of it. So we had supply problems at the end of the year. The trucks were stuck at customs. The great salmon lovers obviously, the eleven students present, CM1 and CM2, had noticed this temporary shortage. “There, it comes back, it’s good”, the reassured of their interlocutor. Reaction from the back of the room: “Cool”.
Pasta and ravioli
Very conscientious, everyone took notes. With each exchange, at least six dishes would rise. Everything interests them. Why are ravioli always the backup dishes? How is it that, often, in pasta, there is a lot of oil? Jean-Pierre Teisseire invited these savvy consumers to visit Sivu in order to suggest recipes to the production manager and his five cooks.
Top-ranked question: “Before you send the food to the schools, do you have someone taste it? Indeed, every day, the meal of the day after tomorrow is tasted. There was a historic turning point. Here is the anecdote: “Ten years ago, we made cod brandade. The problem was that it hadn’t been desalinated properly. It was inedible. All products have been removed. At that time, we tasted the day before for the next day. Since then, we taste the dishes two days in advance. »
Private-public rebalancing
The second commission is called “All Equal”. In particular, it is about school bullying. The third, entitled “All together, let’s help each other”, addresses the themes of solidarity and mutual aid. In total, the City of Bordeaux received 300 applications. Of the 64 students selected, there are 32 girls and 32 boys. Recruitment is done in CM1. The assembly is renewed by half every year. Plenary sessions take place three times a year, in the presence of the mayor. The next will be on June 8.
In Bordeaux, the municipal children’s council has existed for about twenty years. But its composition has just been reviewed. “He was not at all representative of Bordeaux children, considered Sylvie Schmitt, the deputy mayor in charge of education, childhood and youth. We had mostly kids from downtown. More than 60% distributed from private schools, knowing that today, in Bordeaux, 15% are educated in the private sector. Private teachers were more seized of the device, which was based on volunteering. »
Unique in France
A rebalancing has therefore taken place. From now on, half of the young advisers are recruited during school time, the other half during extracurricular time, in leisure centers for example. For the sake of “territorial equity”, all the neighborhoods have representatives, in proportion to the number of children attending school in these different geographical sectors. As a result, Bordeaux Maritime or the Grand Parc have even more say in the matter. This new system, absolutely unique in France, results in a kind of proportional integral. During the integration day, in October, in the Barails ecological reserve, “the two words that came up the most were ecology and discrimination”, observes Sylvie Schmitt. With three parameters and ratios to respect, we imagine that the draw, by hats, was even more complex than that of a football World Cup.