“If we continue to cut jobs, it’s the end assured” – Liberation

Fluorescent yellow jacket on the back, a woman warns Marin before he reaches the road and participates in the temporary blocking of motorists: “You pay attention, huh.” “They’re disabled, they won’t dare to do anything!” replies the teenager, mockingly. Like a hundred people, mostly students in wheelchairs, he came to demonstrate this Thursday morning on the D907 in Vaucresson (Hauts-de-Seine) to save a nursing position in his high school. At the start of the next school year, one of the five school practitioners from the regional adapted education establishment (Erea) Toulouse-Lautrec must indeed leave. “We find it really cruel and sadistic that we transfer a nurse to another high school when we need it so badly”, regrets Joseph, 14, in fourth grade.

Because, in this establishment, three quarters of the 360 ​​students are disabled – mainly motor – and spend a significant part of their weeks benefiting from care. Nurses, but also occupational therapists, physiotherapists, shrinks… Caregivers are present within the structure, which educates students from CP to BTS and welcomes a good part of them to the boarding school. In addition to the nursing positions dependent on national education (four full-time), five nurses from the Departmental Association of Public Education Pupils (Adpep) of Hauts-de-Seine are present.

“We receive between 100 and 120 children a day. It doesn’t take two minutes. [Avec un poste …

–