social. Supervisors demand more resources and consideration

We no longer say “pawn”, but supervisor, or educational assistant in very academic language. You are no longer necessarily a student, when you are a supervisor. The job has become a choice, a fixed-term contract renewable six times. Suddenly, the contenders for the post have changed, have become more demanding. Confronted every day with hundreds of masked pupils, the supervisors would like to be considered better; that we value a mission that has become more difficult. “In vocational high school, tell Ophélie and Zohra who came from Rombas to demonstrate in Metz, this Tuesday, we are three full-time. As soon as a person is missing, it is unmanageable. We are also in charge of five classes each, for which the monitoring is more extensive. We are also responsible for ensuring that the sanitary protocol is respected, and throughout the day we repeat to the pupils that they must put their masks back on, keep their distance… ”

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Small salaries

The trade unionists point out: “They are in the front line, specifies Étienne Simon, professor of history in college of Raon-L’Etape. In contact with everything and in this complicated period, they do the job for many without being looked at more closely ”. He is also a delegate for Sud Educ Lorraine which, alongside the CGT, the CNT and the Snes-Fsu, called for the walkout, this Tuesday 1is December. At the same time, therefore, at the stroke of 2 p.m., the education assistants as well as the priority education advisers (CPE), demonstrated in front of the rectorate, in Nancy and in front of the academy inspection, in Metz. “We will be received,” indicates Bruno Henri, representing Snes-Fus. To claim job creation. The National Education gives money to pay for the hours used to replace the absent but this is not efficient. 247 full-time equivalents were obtained on the academy but which are set aside for the needs. They must correspond to real recruitments. There are about 400 establishments in the academy, if you want one more supervisor in each, the count is not there. Salaries (between 900 and 1,200 €) are also a subject ”.

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