On August 19, over 217,000 young Reunionese returned to school. As every year, it was the same ritual hiding the underlying problem: school failure, which feeds unemployment and thus poverty, as well as illiteracy. This situation fosters the underdevelopment essential to keeping the Reunionnese under the economic, cultural and intellectual dependence of French neo-colonialism. The start of the new school year was marked by one change. There was no visit from the Minister of Education. The (…)