The days of the Grands Bois high school had been numbered since 2016. The Region has just confirmed its closing date. From the start of the 2023 school year, students enrolled in this annex of the La Briquerie high school will be transferred to Thionville. They will integrate new workshops, the construction of which will begin soon. With this transfer, the Lycée de La Briquerie completes and finalizes its energy and maintenance business campus, one of the three labeled within the Nancy-Metz academy.
The Region justifies this closure by the financial argument. “The Grands Bois site represents 25% of the buildings on the La Briquerie campus for 7.2% of the workforce. The device will thus make it possible to reorganize the campus for better cost management and for future investments, with a view to developing training courses there, ”she indicates. The community has injected € 6 million into the construction of these new workshops in Thionville.
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A project that dates back to July 2016
Initially, the boilermaking center should have moved to the former Gaspard-Monge high school in Knutange, which is now closed. But in 2016, the Region had changed its mind, saving in the process € 915,000 (an expansion of the Gaspard-Monge high school was planned, for an investment of € 7.45 million). In the balance, the costs of school transport Thionville-Knutange and the need to duplicate certain functions (documentation center, catering, classrooms…), with operating costs estimated at € 60,000 per year.
In June 2019, the Region informed the mayor of Hayange of its intention to close the Grands Bois in 2023. It reminded him of this in a letter dated January 2021.
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Engelmann tacle Rottner
Thursday morning, March 25, Fabien Engelmann took advantage of the visit to Hayange of the head of the National Rally list in the regional elections, Laurent Jacobelli, to castigate this decision: “Jean Rottner abandoned this school, while there are Requirement. Rather than closing these 40,000 m² of workshops, the Region must invest in creating sectors. This closure is a financial mismanagement. For its part, the community recalled that it had injected € 8.7 million into the restructuring of the Maryse-Bastié high school in Hayange.
If the closure of the Grands Bois is variously appreciated, it in any case elicits the approval of the principal of La Briquerie, Aline Leleux. “It’s consistent with the career campus project,” she says.
Currently, seventy-four students are educated on the site of the Grands Bois de Hayange.
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