The first and second degree neck and neck on the occasion of a local demonstration, “we have rarely seen that, I find it fantastic that everyone is together”, enthuses the senator (Génération. s) and legislative candidate, Sophie Taillé-Polian, this Friday at the end of the afternoon, in front of the premises of the National Education Inspectorate in Villejuif where a crowd forms under the dumbfounded gaze of motorists.
A few minutes and streets earlier, these hundreds of people are gathered close to the town hall. As soon as they arrive, they begin to unfurl flags and banners, to warm up their voices with or without a megaphone, in view of a short demonstration with multiple slogans.
In the ranks, many parents of students, from national federations or independent associations, but also representatives of teacher unions and local elected officials. All are there to demand, tirelessly, resources from the rectorate of the academy of Créteil, both for the schools and for the colleges of the sector.
Ten classes less in September
“We are told ten classes will be closed in Villejuif for the start of the school year in September, while 150 additional students are expected, indicates Amandine Bugnicourt, the president of the parents’ association of the Joliot-Curie nursery school. We are justified in class closures by the demographics in the department, but how can we claim that this applies here? »
On his banner, well-known subjects of concern in the Val-de-Marne are listed in large letters. Already problematic in the department before the arrival of the Covid, but exacerbated at the height of the pandemic, that of non-replaced teachers naturally returns from one taut fabric to another.
“Just for our school, this represents 92 days of lost lessons, points out Amandine Bugnicourt. It’s as if a class hadn’t started the year in September, but on March 28th! »
On strike since the beginning of January, many accompanying students with disabilities (AESH) from Val-de-Marne are also present. “We are missing thirty AESH in the city”, specifies Julie Lambilliotte, deputy mayor of Villejuif in charge of education and childhood. Persevering, Estelle had to fight to obtain this precious help: “I harassed the rectorate, she admits. It’s not normal to have to come to this. »
“We have a wall in front of us”
Father of a child affected by autistic disorders, Luc evolves at the crossroads of these two problems. “He hadn’t had a teacher for four months and now it’s been six weeks, it’s scandalous”, thunders the one who, like so many other parents, has multiplied the letters and the steps, without hit.
Mayor (PCF) of Villejuif, Pierre Garzon did not have more results with the rectorate: “We have a wall in front of us”, regrets the elected official, stressing that these problems are denounced well beyond administrative borders of his city. According to him, the competent authorities are turning a deaf ear: “We act as if the children had not been deprived of education in the past two years, as if the parents were not out of breath”, he slips. , before joining the movement, which should not be the last here. Other actions are being prepared.
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