National education: unions between insecurity and national mobilization – JDM

Noting that 40% of students do not master basic knowledge in French and 70% for mathematics upon entering 2nd grade, the Minister for Vocational Education, Carole Grandjean, wishes to increase their teaching over 10% additional time. in final year, but in “co-intervention” of two teachers, one in general education, the other in professional education, and in the same course.

What the trade union organizations criticize at the national level FSU, SE-UNSA, SNETAA-FO, CGT Educ’action, SGEN-CFDT, SNALC, Sud education, SNEC-CFTC, the CNTFTE and the FCPE which denounce this “profound transformation of the three years of bac pro curriculum” and demand that the minister renounces presenting these texts to the Higher Council of Education on December 14, 2023, because they see a reduction in the hours taught, “a total of 203 hours over the 3 years professional baccalaureate.

In addition to the withdrawal of the reform, the CGT Educ’action recalls for its part the demands for salaries and upward indexation, the recruitment of teachers, the transition to REP+ of all educational establishments in Mayotte and a Marshall plan for construction in the 1^is and 2d degrees. Let us recall that Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne announced increasing the budget for school construction to 130 million euros per year between 2024 and 2027. Also requested are “respect for commitments concerning the AGS, indexed pensions, the implementation of IRCANTEC from January 2024”.

On the other hand, the CGT Educ’action and FSU sai unionswarn the rector about the ongoing violence in Kawéni and its impact on security around the Lycée des Lumières. “Stones of transport in the educational community have become daily. Students and teachers now go to high school in a real climate of fear and insecurity.”

They point out that on Tuesday, December 5, “students and teachers were blocked in the high school until 7 p.m. due to stones being thrown around the high school, some rooms of which were the target, pushing some teachers to confine themselves.” And that this Sunday, December 10, this violence ended up killing “with the gunshot murder of a young man and causing 2 injuries in the Gaôle district where the high school is located.”

The unions are calling for the security of the roads for staff and students “as well as the closure of the high school until Saturday December 16, while waiting for the situation to calm down”. Pending a response to these requests, the staff of the Lycée des Lumières is going on strike from Tuesday, December 12.

A.P-L.