Meritocracy: myth or reality? Do we really have the same opportunities at school? We often hear it said: At school, when you want, you can. But is this promise kept for everyone - everywhere? With Jean-Paul Delahaye, Doctor of Education, former Inspector General of the French Ministry of Education, former DGESCO (Director General of School Education) and ministerial advisor. Today, he is one of the leading voices for social justice at school, and France's leading expert on educational inequalities. Alongside him, a local expert will shed light on the situation of the education system in Martinique today: the territory's specific features, strengths, weaknesses, and challenges specific to the local context. Together, we'll be asking the real questions: o Why does the school benefit more from students who are already advantaged? o How do current financial mechanisms reinforce disparities? o How does meritocracy mask structural injustice? o Why can we say that the school is not for the poor? o Martinique / Hexagone: same rules, same opportunities? o How does the situation in Martinique reveal - or accentuate - certain inegalities? o And above all: how can the educational system reduce - or, on the contrary, deepen - inegalities? This conference will help us understand how the French school system produces winners and losers, but also what the situation in Martinique highlights about the limits of the current model -- and about the possible levers for building a truly egalitarian school. At the Centre Commercial Le Rond-Point, Route du Phare, Fort-de-France SMB is a science popularization afterwork to make science fun and accessible! Squat My Brain, 0696 90 99 56, squatmybrain@gmail.com