Par Writing Le Courrier des Yvelines
Published on 14 May 22 at 18:57
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The teachers and parents of students elected to the board of directors of the Jeanne d’Albret high school demonstrated that Saturday May 14 in front of the town hall Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
The purpose of this gathering was to show the determination of elected officials, school staff and families who do not want a discount renovation of this school with an amputation of the park.
“The current project is a partial renovation, where only the first floors of the buildings will be renovated. There are 5-storey buildings that are in a thermal strainer situation, which have not been renovated for 30 years. And the park of several hectares, with its 18th century tower, will be removed from the school to be transferred to the city of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, with the destruction of an administrative building and the car park, to finally reduce the school to his court and his buildings. And there is no possible negotiation or consultation with the Region. We will end up with works until 2028, with a partial renovation. We lose this park which makes the charm of the establishment and especially its oxygen, we saw it with the health crisis. We have around 2,000 students and staff here and if we hadn’t had this space during confinement, we would have experienced it very badly. »
Student safety in question
Regarding the plan to reserve the use of the park for students during the week, and to open it to the public only on weekends, a representative of parents of students absolutely does not believe in the possibility of doing so, also mentioning the problem of student safety, with a public park and the risk of illicit trafficking near the students.
Thierry Bianchi affirms that the unions of parents of pupils have written several letters to the Region, and that since September they have only had waiting answers. “As by chance, Mr. Péricard wanted to see us yesterday, and he would not be available for two months afterwards, he adds. We were supposed to have answers to the previous CA which took place a month ago, where we were told that we did not have all the answers with elements still under consideration. »
Stakeholders want to be able to participate in the discussion and have their questions answered. They fear that the answers they will have do not allow discussion.
A desire to go quietly
“There is clearly a desire to sneak through without anyone knowing. We asked to see what is planned. We were never answered. We had a little consultation at the start to find out what we wanted in this renovation. We all said what we were interested in and when we were offered an option of what was going to be done, nothing that had been said during our meetings was carried over into the project. »
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Regional Councilor Sylvie Habert-Dupuis wants to calm the situation
The regional councilor and first deputy mayor of the mayor of Saint-Germain-en Laye, Sylvie Habert-Dupuis, reacted to the rally organized this Saturday by the elected teachers of the Board of Directors of the high school on which she sits under the Region.
“What I would first like to recall is that the Covid period has passed through this, and that the first discussions started in 2020 have been slowed down by the crisis. We redesigned the project, and after having seen the Region’s services on the 9th and presented his vision of the City, the Mayor wanted to share it and offered the elected teachers a meeting this Friday, May 13th. It is only once the City’s vision has been shared and endorsed by the Region’s teams that the City’s first proposals can then begin.
We are talking about a project that will see the light of day in 2026/2027, and for which the teachers are already asking us for very specific things. Let teachers guide us on work that is more important than others, on how they use the premises, what they lack. This is completely normal. We build the project with the users of the place. I remind you that the Region has redone 4 of the 5 public high schools in the City, and all the teachers can see that the Region has been remarkably at the rendezvous of these renovations. Once we are all in agreement by having answered the questions asked upstream, we will be even more effective afterwards on the follow-up of the site. »
Sylvie Habert-Dupuis disagrees with Mr Bianchi’s assertion of an attempt to divide the unity of the elected members of the Board of Directors: “I actually offered to receive the parents of CA students, and I I met some of them during my travels in town, and we were able to chat informally. When I found out about this gathering, I sent Mr. Bianchi a message offering to receive it this week with all the teachers, and the elected teaching team received an e-mail from the mayor inviting them to a date this Friday.
We only want one thing, and that is to calm the situation down. I understand each other’s questions, but there is substance and form. The process of the demonstration is astonishing. Mr. Mayor is very approachable, very attentive. I can’t go faster than what the services offer us in terms of thinking about high school. This is not the time to create tension after all that we have just gone through, on a subject like this which will end with a formidable renovation of Jeanne d’Albret. »
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Teachers’ car park
This professor says that it has been requested to renovate science rooms following the loss of the rooms of the building which must be destroyed, but this is not planned. And there would be no place to put priceless high school collections, dating back a century, which are currently in a room that must be destroyed. The professor also returns to the project to destroy the current car park for teachers: “There was talk of putting it on rue Alexandre-Dumas, but it is already saturated. Imagine 150 teachers every morning. It would be worse! And we imagine the cost of underground parking in this area with quarries. We are waiting for solutions to calm the anger of teachers, parents of students, staff and students, all associated against this project to have a complete renovation, and which is in line with the living environment of our high school students, at the level safety, the environment, and sustainable development. »
Jehan-Jacques Peyre
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