While from 8 September the Confederation participated in the National Council of Refoundation, the calls for education continued to multiply, maintaining an ever more vague vagueness for colleagues. In mid-September we learned that the major consultations announced by the ministry would be materialized in our field by the territorial CNRs on the subject of Education. Although the launch of these consultations in institutions took place on October 3, many concerns prompted the Fep-CFDT to send a letter to the National Minister of Education
A mechanism that says nothing about the participation of private contractors
The text published in September on the ministry’s website and the vademecum produced to help principals organize consultations provide a lot of information. These consultations, carried out on a voluntary basis, are intended to be part of the ministry’s reform plan. The written guidance in the texts to guide these discussions in the institutions calls for building or reviewing the framework educational projects and evaluation projects for the high school, in order to hope to benefit from a portion of the 500 million euro endowment of the innovation fund. education planned over five years. The head teacher, who has the exclusive prerogative of organizing such consultations, can freely solicit parents, actors and actresses of the territory, any member of the educational community. In the guide and in the text published on Eduscol, no reference is made at any time to private businesses under contract and to the possibility that they are involved in these consultation projects to request access to the package. So much so that one might think that the ministry has forgotten them.
No presence of private sector staff representatives either
Furthermore, if the vademecum invites us to rely on the work of the boards and authorities of colleges and high schools (CVC and CVL), if they encourage the presentation of the results of the works and the construction of the projects in these same bodies, it is clear that at no time are the CSEs of private businesses under contract, the only bodies representing personnel in the structures, mentioned. Has the ministry once again excluded private institutions under contract from this national consultation process on education, effectively forgetting 20% of teachers and students in France?
Questions about the autonomy granted to institutions and the use of budgets
These consultations, which can lead to projects and funding from the ministry, are of greater concern to the Fep-CFDT for the increasing autonomy they give to the structures and managers of the institutions, thus creating inequalities between the students of the different schools and territories in France. Although the ministry recalls that all reforms must fit into a national framework, particularly at program level, the lack of verification of settlement projects and evaluation of contracted private education projects is not reassuring as to any deviations.
The handbook also provides time to allow teachers to participate in consultations. It will thus be possible to trivialize 2 days of second degree and 12 hours to be taken out of the 108 hours of 1is degree, so that everyone can be heard. But the Fep-CFDT wonders how these trivial times will really be organized in the factories.
Once again, everything is vague, whether it is the ministerial announcements or the consultations that are opening. The Fep-CFDT, with the letter that was sent to him, asks the minister to answer all the questions he lists in this article.
