Ifølge meddelelser fra den filologiske forening i Frankrig, det nationale gymnasielærerfagforbund og foreningen for klassiske sprog vil den franske undervisningsminister, Claude Allegre, afskaffe undervisningen i oldgræsk som et led i den nye uddannelsesreform, der skal finde sted i begyndelsen af 1998.
According to information from the French Association of Language Teachers, the National Union of Secondary School Teachers and the Toulouse Regional Classics Teaching Association, moves are being made by the French Minister of Education, Claude Allegre, to abolish the teaching of ancient Greek as part of the educational reforms scheduled for the beginning of 1998.