For months, long before the chaotic start of the school year in September, even before one can imagine seeing the schools closing their doors and the students given over to distance education, they have not ceased to alert the institution . Nineteen positions deleted in the colleges of Val-de-Marne, the account would not be there.
It is clear that the teachers of Val-de-Marne were right to worry. At the start of the school year, 1,300 more students enrolled in the 105 colleges in the department. Well beyond the forecasts of the ministry while 19 positions were cut.
Conversely, in response to the alarm signal of secondary school teachers, the rectorate of Créteil assured from January of a relative stability of the number of secondary school pupils, of a “slight increase” in the number of pupils. And to reassure teachers and parents of worried pupils about “the particular attention” which would be paid to the situations of the establishments.
Sharp increase in enrollment in sixth grade
However, the colleges of Val-de-Marne explode. Particularly in the sixth year, where the arrival of a new cohort of pupils in many establishments increases the number of pupils to 30 per class. As in Aldophe-Chérioux in Vitry, mobilized from the start of the school year to obtain an additional class, or even in Molière in Chennevières or Albert-Camus in Plessis-Trévise. Establishments mobilized several times since the start of the school year without obtaining additional resources.
However, the Snes-FSU of Val-de-Marne has just learned, on the occasion of the Departmental Council of National Education which was held this Monday in the prefecture, that it is finally 1300 more students who came to inflate the number of college students.
The teachers’ union today denounces “largely undervalued figures” which were used “to justify the educational bleeding” with “terrible consequences” for students and college staff.
While in January the rectorate foresaw a drop in enrollment, justifying the elimination of nineteen full-time positions, the departmental directorate of National Education announced a few days later an increase of only 580 students.
