The implementation of the new study program is causing difficulties in public schools. Teachers are expressing a need for training. The first week of the 2026-2027 school year is ending without real progress in public educational establishments. Classes have not yet definitively started despite two to three sessions per subject. "We're lost in this new program which is extremely difficult. We don't know where to start," say teachers from a general education college (CEG) in the Antananarivo-ville school district yesterday. Mathematics teachers point out difficulties in the new program's content. "Probability, statistics, translation in geometry—lessons that were taught in 3rd grade and 2nd cycle secondary in the previous program—have been introduced in the 6th grade curriculum. Even we don't master them, how are we going to teach them to our students?" confess mathematics teachers from a public school. A History and Geography teacher in a rural area shares his difficulty in finding documents suited to the program's content. "New lessons like climate change and renewable energy have been introduced in the Geography program. I don't have documents on these lessons. My biggest concern is that I'm not connected to the Internet, I don't have an appropriate phone, and our establishment has no computer connection either," he says. Teachers also deplore the shortage of teaching materials. "The booklets provided are not enough to properly prepare lessons," they note. Some teachers acknowledge that the new program corresponds to current realities and provides students with skills needed for today's popular professions, such as climate change, renewable energy, or tourism. "In French, for example, we address the tourism theme and expressions related to this sector. So if French-speaking tourists visit a tourist village, students already have the necessary knowledge to interact with them," explains a French teacher. Teachers are requesting training and additional materials. "Partners are ready to finance the training we are actively preparing," reassures Yves Martin Razafimandranto, director general of Pedagogy at the Ministry of National Education. He adds that pedagogical guides have already been sent to public schools and further distributions are forthcoming.