On Thursday, the FSU union (Unitary Union Federation) gathered the local press to take stock a few days after the start of the school year. Lack of staff, salary increase, health protocol linked to the pandemic, the representatives are preparing the demonstration on September 23.
After a few days of school, the FSU union takes stock of this new school year in 2021 and notes several points. “In addition to the budgetary situation, the problems that we want to raise concern the forgotten posts in the Gard. The administration has not worked on the reality of the needs that could be met with the existing staff”, starts Emmanuel Bois, FSU departmental secretary. The latter regrets ten vacant positions in the Gard colleges in EPS (Physical and Sports Education). “Far too many positions have been blocked for interns, more than what was foreseeable so there are unfilled positions”, he justifies. “70% of secondary schools have not been able to start with a full workforce in the Gard”, would like to complete Jérôme Amicel, teacher at the Philippe-Lamour high school.
What particularly concerns these union representatives is to obtain a salary increase. “The Minister of Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer, announces that no teacher will be paid less than € 2,000 net per month, which suggests that he has the miracle solution. At the moment, we must have done between 15 and 17 years of career to have this salary “, wonders Emmanuel Bois. According to figures announced by the union, out of a ranking of 15 European countries, France comes in penultimate position concerning the average gross salary of a teacher after 15 years of career with 2,600 € for a European average established at € 3,219. “The index point has been frozen for 10 years. So we are calling for a strike on September 23”, announces Myriam Vermale, director of the Mandajors nursery school in Alès.
A movement organized with other teachers’ unions: CGT, FO, Solidaires or even South. “A revaluation is announced in February from 15 to 60 € per month, two months before the presidential election, but it has not been negotiated with the unions”, reproaches Emmanuel Bois. For the educational body, this re-entry was again carried out in a particular health context. In the first stage, the protocol is simple: as soon as a student is declared positive for covid-19, the whole class is placed in isolation for a week. “We currently have 45 closed classes in the Gard”, FSU announcement. During this period, distance education takes over.
Events scheduled for September 23 and October 5
“Many teachers call me to anticipate in case the pedagogical continuity by asking me if it can be done from home because the rule stipulates that the teacher must teach from the establishment where the material is not always available. adapted”, explains Myriam Vermale. At the end of the seven days, the parents of the child concerned are not obliged to present negative results but simply a sworn statement. And each student should do the same as well.
For children, PCR tests should remain free after October 15. A pandemic which persists and which obviously poses a problem in organizing school trips at all levels. “If you want to go to the cinema or to a museum with middle school or high school students in the presence of the general public, this means that they have to show the health pass when it is not compulsory to go to class”, notes Tifenn Le Martelot, math teacher at the Geneviève De Gaulle-Anthonioz high school in Milhaud.
In high school, if a positive case is found, only the student who has contracted the virus should stay at home. In Philippe-Lamour, the pupil vaccination rate is 75%. In primary school, the problem of an absent and not replaced teacher also raises questions: “Before we sent them home, now we have to distribute them among the classes, although it is recommended not to do shuffling. We are told to welcome them at the back of the class”, worries Myriam Vermale. After that of September 23, a larger, inter-professional event is scheduled for October 5.
Corentin Corger
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