Decidedly very upset, the president of the mayors of Sarthe, Emmanuel Franco! This Thursday, February 18, 2021, a few hours from the Departmental Council of National Education which will rule on the opening and closing of classes in the department’s public schools, he has just sent a third letter to Patricia Galeazzi, the academic director, about his school map project. Mail Title: “The despised elect. “
Here is the letter addressed to the Academic Director
“The speech made to associations of elected officials by the direction of the national education services in Sarthe, which called for initiating a common reflection and promoting transparency with the Sarthe mayors throughout the process of drawing up the map school, would it be a simulacrum of social dialogue? This is what seems to indicate this morning’s visit, however announced, by the mayor of Allonnes to the Academic Inspectorate, Boulevard Paixhans in Le Mans, which remained unsuccessful because ignored by the academic director, who, although informed of his presence , did not consider it useful to go to meet him “, launches Emmanuel Franco.
“Negation of respect for mayors”
“While the first school card proposals were unanimously rejected by the teachers’ unions, the closure projects are revised daily, and a few hours before the consultation of the Departmental Council of National Education, such disdain is unacceptable, he continues. This contempt for a local elected representative faced with several closure projects not only embodies the denial of respect for mayors, but also a lack of recognition of the commitment of teachers and parents of students. “
“Passage in force and absence of consultation”
“The development of the school map is a long-term process which can only lead to a territorial project through dialogue with the elected officials who will implement it. The force change and the lack of consultation with local elected officials directly impacted by the planned measures are not conceivable, especially when they are already faced with a disrupted economic and societal context.
Indignant by such an act of deafness, the Steering Committee and its President, Emmanuel Franco, oppose any unilateral decision-making and denounce the impact of such a process on the leeway available to elected officials in the preparation of the return to school in September, which nevertheless guarantees its smooth running. “
Senator writes Minister of Education
At the same time, the Sarthe socialist senator, Thierry Cozic, addressed a written question to the Minister of National Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer:
“The announced class closures threaten several schools in rural and urban communities. This decision is incomprehensible, while the health crisis calls for an incredible and daily mobilization of elected officials, teachers and more broadly all education personnel.
Rural areas are particularly fragile and educational offers constitute, for them, an essential factor of their attractiveness and, a fortiori, of their development.
In addition, it is questionable that Intercommunal Pedagogical Regroupings (RPI) are concerned by such closures, even though their purpose is to ensure, in rural municipalities, access to education by pooling resources ”.
Thierry Cozic asks the minister “what precise and firm commitments he undertakes to make so that no class closure is decided without the agreement of the mayors concerned. “
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