These are days when they demanded time to talk to each other and define together how to pay tribute to their colleague with their students. But also months as they demand additional resources to deal with the health crisis. And years they don’t feel “heard” by their hierarchy.
Fifteen days after the assassination of Samuel Paty, three days after this new confinement, it is this deep anger and these revived concerns of the educational community that crystallize in this return of the All Saints holidays.
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Everywhere, in Seine-Saint-Denis, in Val-de-Marne, Yvelines, Essonne, Seine-et-Marne, Hauts-de-Seine or Val-d’Oise, the wave of protest s ‘is broken on the altar of Jean-Michel Blanquer’s last turnaround who, Friday evening, announced a return to school at the usual time. Either at 8 am instead of 10 am as had been planned the previous week. Not leaving the possibility to the teachers to gather beforehand to prepare the homage to Samuel Paty which was finally held in all the establishments at 11 am. Nor to organize the health protocol.
“The lack of consultation has ignited the powder”
General assemblies, strikes, right of withdrawal, many are the teachers who did not welcome their students, in the morning or at the end of the minute of silence and the reading of Jean Jaurès’ letter. Invoking “lack of preparation”, “contempt for the realities of the profession” of this re-entry under a reinforced health protocol “impossible to implement”.
“The lack of consultation has ignited the powder, to imagine that we can at the same time reflect on the tribute to our colleague, prepare the implementation of the health protocol and give lessons is indeed the mark of ignorance and contempt for what our profession is, denounces Gabriel Holard, co-secretary of Snes-FSU 94. To cope, we need a collective strategy, the ministry has realized that it preferred that the we don’t talk to each other, we take that for mistrust on the part of the authorities ”.
This Monday noon, Christophe Naudin, has just graduated from the Dulcie September college in Arcueil (Val-de-Marne), the history-geography teacher and survivor of the Bataclan has not yet crossed his students. He paid tribute to Samuel Paty with his fellow strikers. Forty of the sixty that make up the establishment had chosen to go on strike, denouncing a minute of silence “reductive and contemptuous”.
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Gathered in a general assembly, they finally agreed that this Tuesday morning would be dedicated to a time of exchange to define together how to talk about the macabre terrorist assassination and freedom of expression. Then to organize the modalities of the health protocol before resuming normal classes on Wednesday.
“We are out of breath”
In Val-de-Marne, teachers from the Darius-Millaud high school in Kremlin-Bicêtre, massively on strike after the tribute to Samuel Paty, voted to continue the movement on Tuesday to denounce the impossibility of ensuring sanitary conditions decent in classes of 35 students.
The De-Lattre-de-Tassigny college in Perreux will also be on strike this Tuesday, Adolphe-Chérioux in Vitry, mobilized this Monday, will be on strike again Thursday and is considering a renewable strike next week. Same thing at the Lycée Condorcet in Saint-Maur. The teachers made use of their right of withdrawal in Villejuif at the Louis-Pasteur college or in Gutenberg in Créteil.
In Seine-Saint-Denis, many strike movements were organized at Joliot-Curie and Pablo-Neruda colleges in Stains, Flora-Tristan high schools in Noisy-le-Grand and Louis-Pasteur in Villemomble, Politzer colleges in Bagnolet , Gabriel-Péri in Aubervilliers or even La Courtille in Saint-Denis.
“It is an eruptive strike movement, a great blow of anger, breathes Grégory Thuizat, departmental co-secretary of the Snes-FSU 93 union. The minister dared to bring back the teachers as if nothing had happened. Between the assassination of our colleague and the health crisis, we are out of breath. “
Same ground swell in the Hauts-de-Seine where several establishments have also been the scene of mobilizations. Particularly at Guy-Moquet colleges in Gennevilliers and Jean-Baptiste Clément in Colombes, as well as Newton high schools in Clichy-la-Garenne and Joliot-Curie in Nanterre. Everywhere it is the management of the health crisis and the measures sometimes seeming to be taken at the last minute that irritate.
“It takes a massive employment of teachers to cope”
“The anger vis-à-vis the minister is very strong, believes Julien Beaussier, SNES 92. The delayed announcements, it is experienced as real violence. “It takes a massive employment of teachers to face the sanitary requirements”, adds David Gozlan, member of SNFOLC 92.
In Seine-et-Marne, strike this Monday at the Honoré-de-Balzac high school in Mitry-Mory. As at the Gaston-Bachelard high school in Chelles, again, where teachers have exercised their right of withdrawal or their right to strike.
“Even the students tell us that nothing has changed! We finally got the classes of 35 students to be divided by two with a group at home with work to do and a group in progress in high school, ”explains Béatriz Gutierrez, departmental secretary of Sud Education 77 and teacher at Lycée Thibaut- de-Champagne in Provins also mobilized.
Four high schools were also on strike in Yvelines, such as Saint-Exupéry in Mantes-la-Jolie which reached 82% of strikers while Jean-Rostand’s teachers exercised their right of withdrawal.
In Essonne, walkouts could be decided in several colleges and high schools from this Tuesday. This Monday, only the college Les Dînes-Chiens de Chilly-Mazarin was on strike. “We are asked to choose between our security and our mission to educate, denounces Johanna Gaston, departmental secretary FO 91. Recruitment is essential to allow us to split the classes. “
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Finally, in Val-d’Oise, part of the teaching staff stopped working in the Romain-Rolland high schools in Goussainville, Galilée and Jules-Verne in Cergy, Virginia-Henderson in Arnouville, in the Fernand-Léger professional establishments. and Jean-Jaurès in Argenteuil, as well as those of Ermont and Epluches in Saint-Ouen-l’Aumône or Turgot in Montmorency. The Anatole-France colleges in Sarcelles, Wallon in Garges-lès-Gonesse and Jean-Moulin in Sannois were also mobilized.
In the rectorate of Créteil, it is assured that “tolerance” is required until November 9. “Until then, teachers and staff are doing their best by avoiding mixing, ensuring disinfection and opening windows and tell us about the difficulties encountered”, specifies the institution.
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