Tribune: «How about finally tackling illiteracy in Switzerland?»

Le Regard Libre N° 80 - Marco Polli

In this article, actor and director Marco Polli puts the recent controversies over spelling and inclusive writing into perspective over the last fifty years. The former president of the Geneva Secondary School Teachers' Union and the Commission Langues Vivantes denounces what he sees as the various stages that have led to the current state of schools in Switzerland. In other words, a situation where one pupil in five is illiterate by the age of 15. And the former teacher proposes a way out.

Sometimes, when you're tired, it takes a while to stop yourself from chanting in your head; then something clicks, and the meaning goes straight into your imagination. So you'd have to do away with speech, on which alphabetic writing is based, to perceive the meaning of what o