“Jean-Michel has chosen his three specialties: lies, contempt, austerity” Such was the tone of the slogans displayed this Friday under the windows of the rector.
At the microphone, a succession of small delegations came to bear witness to alarming situations in establishments in Val-de-Marne and Seine-Saint-Denis. All are protesting against cuts in the overall hourly allocation of their establishment with the consequence of class closings or the abolition of support systems. “It’s 50 hours less next year with us. We are faced with a dilemma because in the state of our enrollment, we do not have the means to offer all the options to our students, especially in mathematics. The only way to finance them would be to accommodate more students, which would adversely affect the quality of work in the classroom ”, regrets a teacher from the Bondy vocational school, Jean Renoir.
A delegation of parents and teachers from the Rabelais college in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés also came to present their situation. “Under the pretext that we would be a favored establishment, our requests are not considered. However, our establishment has 800 students at the heterogeneous level. For three months this year, our non-allophone students did not have a French as a foreign language teacher. We have been asking for a second CPE for 5 years. Until now, we had managed to keep a tutorial window of one hour per week, it could increase to one hour every two weeks. We ask at least the maintenance of our hourly allocation ”, they summarize. One of the teachers who has two children in school also insists on the almost systematic non-replacement of absent teachers. “One of my daughters in first year at the Branly high school in Nogent-sur-Marne, no longer has a physics-chemistry teacher, no more optional courses possible. My other child, at the Cahn college in Bry-sur-Marne also has a teacher who has not been replaced for months ”.
Teachers from the Simone de Beauvoir college in Créteil also joined the demonstration. Five years ago, they mobilized to obtain, in vain, the classification of this establishment in priority education network. “They plan to cut around fifty hours for the next school year. This should result in the removal of two classes but our numbers will be the same as today. We have a supervision rate of supervisors well below the thresholds and we have already reached five disciplinary councils since the beginning of the year. After ten days of strike, a national education inspector received us but brought us nothing. Another appointment was set for today but it was canceled at the last moment ”.
The grievances against the academic inspection are even more serious among a group of parents and teachers at Cron College in Kremlin-Bicêtre, who believe that the balance of power has become strained in recent years. “Until now, when we met the hierarchy to tell them that we lacked the means, they renewed their confidence in us and recognized that the situation was difficult. Today they come to tell us that we are not working well enough, that it is our fault that we do not have the results ”, explains a disgusted teacher.
An Academic Technical Committee (CTA) was held this afternoon at the rectorate and provided an opportunity to discuss with the trade unions. In addition, the rectorate indicates to have received in recent days in audience all the schools of the academy having requested it for questions relating to the means.
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