Teachers of preparatory classes are on strike, this Monday, December 9, against a reform project of the Ministry of Education which makes them fear an increase in the number of teaching hours and a reduction in their remuneration. In Grenoble, the movement is very followed in Champollion.
This teachers’ strike responds to a call from the Snalc (National Union of High Schools and Colleges), the Snes-FSU (National Union of Secondary Education) as well as several associations of preparatory class teachers. A massive strike, according to the situation at Lycée Champollion in Grenoble where 83% of preparatory teachers joined the movement, against 58% in the Academy. This Monday morning, high school students flocked to high school, but their elders, students in preparation, had, for many, stayed at home, warned by their teachers.
Article – Les Echos
The Discord Project
The regulatory service obligation (ORS) for preparatory teachers is ten hours per week, “discharged” by two hours, one hour for second-year teachers and at least one hour for those with classes of more than 35 students. (most of them). The Ministry of National Education has proposed that all teachers in these preparatory classes work ten hours per week. In return, Mr. Peillon suggested the payment of compensation of 3,000 euros per year for those who teach at least four hours in front of more than 35 students. But this does not convince the teachers.
The reform “would force teachers, either to carry out many more hours of lessons at equal remuneration, possibly in front of more classes, or else to suffer a very significant drop in their remuneration”, indignantly the teachers of the preparatory classes in a press release published in the daily Les Echos. “Who would accept, for equal work, a reduction in their remuneration of the order of ten to twenty percent?”
While acknowledging that the preparatory classes are “improvable”, these teachers believe that the project “humiliates” them and constitutes “a frontal attack against these classes and the grandes écoles”.
