The countdown has begun for millions of students heading back to school, caught between the joy of reuniting with classmates and the stress of the new academic year. Back to School in a Climate of Insecurity Without updated statistics, it's difficult to determine the exact or even approximate number of students who will return for the next school year. One thing is certain: primary school represents the bulk, followed by middle school and extracurricular programs. High school students generally rank fourth in terms of enrollment. However, parents know down to the last ariary what they have spent or will spend on school supplies, whose lists often fill more than one page of a large notebook. Not to mention—though it must be said—prices showing an upward trend, contrary to student performance levels, which are rather declining, particularly in disadvantaged areas that don't benefit from additional resources like Priority Education Zones (ZEP) in France, where the school year begins almost at the same time as in Madagascar. It's somewhat comparing the incomparable, since a series of disappearances of people, sometimes followed by deaths, especially of young girls, risks looming over the school commute, both coming and going. A security issue that deeply concerns parents, faced with challenges—budgetary and scheduling—whose solutions cannot be found in their children's textbooks. After the vacation break, "back to school," to use the English that is part of the school curriculum. For teachers, students, and parents, the resumption of classes in both public and private institutions should proceed under the best possible conditions, or else the authorities risk receiving poor marks and unfavorable comments from day one.