While this week marks a return to normal in the colleges with the end of the half-gauge for the fourth and third classes, great concern hangs over the schools in Nanterre and Bagneux. In question: the decrease in the volume of the global hourly allocation (DHG) planned for each of them at the start of the September school year.
These concerns – shared by school officials and parents’ associations -, the mayor of Nanterre Patrick Jarry (DVG) expressed them to the Ministry of Education, as did his communist counterpart of Bagneux Marie-Hélène. Amicable.
In a letter addressed to Jean-Michel Blanquer, the first is surprised, not to say annoyed, at this announced decrease. All the more so since among the establishments concerned there are five secondary schools classified as priority network heads as well as the versatile Joliot-Curie high school. A high school which, on its own, could lose a hundred hours of teaching in September.
“We will remove options or hours of supervision and support, regrets Jean-Pierre Bellier, deputy mayor of Nanterre in charge of education. In short, we are going to remove everything that makes our children successful. “
“The government gives us the means of action on one side to suppress us on the other”
The elected official, like the mayor, believes that this drop in the overall hourly allocation is likely to end the “dynamic” from which schools in Nanterre benefit today. This dynamic was also welcomed by the obtaining, on January 31, of the national label “Educational City” for its Parc Nord and Parc Sud districts. This label, created by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of the City to ensure better educational support for young people, should notably benefit the Paul-Éluard and Évariste-Galois colleges, where the situation is gradually improving. after several delicate episodes.
However, these two colleges are also concerned by the drop in the DHG. Hence the incomprehension of teachers and parents of students. “It’s absurd,” laments one of them. The government gives us the means of action on one side to suppress us on the other. That does not make any sense. “
“REP or REP + establishments had been more or less spared until now, but here they have to deal with a significant drop in their hourly staffing, and this is a real blow to the head, notes Gwenaël for his part. Luneau, president of the local union of Nanterre and departmental administrator FCPE. And the least we can say is that this drop comes at a very bad time. Because for many young people, the health crisis and confinement have weighed heavily on education. “
This observation is also made by Patrick Jarry in the letter he sent to Jean-Michel Blanquer. A letter in which the elected representative asks the minister to kindly “reexamine the means provided for the secondary schools” of the city. Same expectations in Bagneux where a petition has already collected more than 1,500 signatures and where, on Saturday, teachers and parents of students took part in a demonstration to cry out their incomprehension.
While waiting for a response from the minister, the rectorate of Versailles explains that the academic scale distributes the means more equitably, taking into account the social context of the establishments.
“Each establishment benefits from resources for its teaching, to which is added a margin of autonomy. The scale of distribution of resources relates to this margin of autonomy and applies according to the social context of the establishment, ”we told the rectorate, where it is promised that the most disadvantaged establishments in the department will have endowments superior to others.
“Thus, the priority education colleges, which represent 20% of the colleges in the department, benefit from two-thirds of the hours granted on the autonomy margin. This represents more than 2,000 hours for these establishments in order to enable them to make educational differentiation, personalized support, co-intervention according to the choices made by the teams. “
On the specific case of Évariste-Galois who expects to lose about twenty hours, the rectorate indicates that this college still benefits from “one of the strongest margins of autonomy of the department, even of the academy” and a very favorable supervision rate of 23 students per class.
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