“We had already alerted to the fact that the opening of an Ulis (editor’s note: localized unit for inclusive education) this year was going to be complicated“, Explains Gabrielle Augusto, math teacher at Jean-Pierre Timbaud college.
A total of 15 teachers went on strike, thus joining the national call for a strike by education personnel by an inter-union (CGT, FSU, FO and SUD) this Thursday, September 23. Thirteen of them also joined the procession of demonstrators who marched in Paris from Jussieu (5th stop) to the Ministry of National Education in Sèvres-Babylone (7th stop).
Safety threshold exceeded
In their press release, where no union is mentioned, the teachers involved point out that “again this year, the safety threshold of 600 students and 26 divisions has been exceeded. Indeed, this year the establishment welcomes 618 students in 29 divisions with the opening of a ULIS system, in addition to the two systems already present: UPE2A (editor’s note: dedicated to allophone students) and the NSA (Editor’s note: for students with no or very little education in their country of origin). ”
The problem does not lie in the new Ulis, a device intended for pupils with disabilities. “Already under current conditions, the sanitary protocol is not applicable, ” she continues. What we are asking is that there are fewer students per class so that everyone can work normally. ” The idea would be to be able to relieve the college Jean-Pierre Timbaud to tend towards a maximum of 24 students maximum per class (against 28 currently on average).
However, as in many other towns in the department, Bobigny is facing increasing demographic pressure. “The problem is that all the other establishments around are in the same situation“, Notes Gabrielle Augusto. Hence the long-standing demand for the creation of a 5th college in the town. This request must be renewed tonight at the departmental council: the representatives of the teaching team must indeed be received by Elodie Girardet, departmental councilor delegated to the educational project in Seine-Saint-Denis.
Ironically, it was at the Jean-Pierre Timbaud college that Stéphane Troussel, the president of the department, had one of the three new oasis-courtyards of the Sequano-Dyonisian colleges built. But if the departmental council, which is responsible for this, has planned the construction of eight new colleges, none is planned in Bobigny.
Additional AEDs and AESHs
In the immediate future, therefore, we have to deal with the most in a hurry. “There are 12 students in Ulis including nine in 6th and three in 5th. At the moment, they stay with their coordinating teacher without being able to benefit from inclusion time.“, Describes Gabrielle Augusto.
Overcrowded classes are not the only explanation for this situation: another factor lies in the lack of personnel to supervise these students with varying profiles and degrees of disability. “Moreover, there are already students under the MDPH (editor’s note: departmental house for disabled people) in the establishment which are not always followed by an AESH, ”She continues. Also, the teachers on strike intend to ask the rectorate of Créteil for additional resources estimating that five AESH would be necessary, in addition to 8 to 9 educational assistants, against 7 stationed in the establishment and who were all on strike today. ‘hui.
Apart from a letter that he intends to send tomorrow to the direction of the departmental services of national education (DSDEN) in Seine-Saint-Denis, the strike movement of the college Jean-Pierre Timbaud also intends to sensitize the parents of students to the situation. “And it is very likely that we are heading for a second day of strike“, Breathes Gabrielle Augusto.
The academic direction has been approached and its position will complete this article when it reacts.
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