In July President Tebboune called for that the teaching of English to become part of the primary program starting with the new school year this September. The rapidity of this reform involves many ulterior motives regarding France and the French language, the language of colonisation, but is also intended to make up for the failure to arabise the country’s schooling. When Algerian children went back to primary school for their third year on 21 September 2022, they discovered a disconcerting (.)