94 teaching posts will disappear in Martinique at the beginning of the 2023 school year. The plan of the Ministry of Education provides for the closure of 35 posts in primary education, 56 in secondary education and the elimination of 3 administrative posts.
In the ranks of the UNSA Enseingants union, we are already denouncing this school map. “An unacceptable 2023 school year”protested the union organization in a press release.
“The ministry has only one obsession: budget savings”punishes the SNES FSU.
For the ministry, these job cuts are in line with the decline in student numbers. “In the academy of Martinique, the drop in the number of students is -395 in the first public degree (-1.4%) and -676 in the second public degree (-2.3%). On our territory the demographic decline is unfortunately long-lasting, so in 7 new school years (from 2015 to 2022), the school population of the Martinique Academy decreased by 16.3% (-12,940 first and second grade students, all sectors together)”supports the Rectorate.
The calculations are good, according to the academy, which supports it “The number of teachers per 100 students (P/E) projected for the start of the 2023 school year is maintained at 8.82. This supervising rate remains well above the national rate (5.98).”
“The expected reduction in students should be an opportunity to catch up on our lapse in supervision rates”esteem the UNSA for its part.
“Small class sizes should be the norm for our students to be more successful,” opposes the SNES FSU.
The UNSA sees several consequences in the central administration’s approach: increase in the number of students in classes, deterioration of learning conditions, greater difficulties in replacing absent teachers. The UNSA Enseignants is already calling on its troops to mobilize.
