Parents of students from Jean-Jaurès elementary school gathered in large numbers this Monday, March 8, to say no to the project to close a French post and the non-opening of a half-post of teaching in Basque.
Anger roars for several days at the elementary school Jean-Jaurès d’Anglet. It materialized on Monday, March 8, at 8 a.m., with a rally that brought together a large number of parents at the start of the school year.
Armed with two banners, they expressed their disappointment and their incomprehension, following two decisions of the departmental service of National Education, announced Thursday, March 4, in joint consultative commission, of close a teaching position in French at the start of the school year in September, and not to open a half-teaching post in Basque .
“These decisions must be ratified on Tuesday, March 9, 2021, indicates a delegate of the parents of the pupils. We are opposed to the fact that five pupils are missing to maintain the French post, while we are only in the month of March and that no figure is definitive. The city’s education department has told us that it is certain that by June there will be at least five registrations. “
A half-post in Basque refused
The other subject of disappointment for the parents of pupils and teachers of Jean-Jaurès concerns the announced refusal to open an additional half-post for teaching in the Basque language. “We have 72 students scheduled for the next school year in bilingual education. This will lead us to 24 students per class , when the Public Office for the Basque Language sets a maximum of 22 pupils. “
The Jean-Jaurès elementary school currently has one and a half teaching post in Basque, while more than a third of its staff follows bilingual education.
Claude Olive’s anger
In the absence of the mayor of Anglet, Claude Olive, retained in Pau, two of his deputies, Nicole Darrasse, in charge of education and Jean-Paul Ospital, district representative, brought the parents of the pupils the assurance of municipal support. A delegation must be received by Claude Olive, Tuesday March 9, 2021 at 8 a.m.
“When we see the number of jobs lost throughout the department, including Anglet, we can only react, said the mayor and 1st vice-president of the Departmental Council. in total contradiction with the speech of the Minister of National Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer. But behind the official speech, there are the thresholds below which positions are removed. What is happening in Anglet, but also Bayonne, Saint-Jean-de-Luz, Ustaritz, Pau, Montardon and many other municipalities, in the Basque Country and Béarn, is truly scandalous . In this period of pandemic and state of health emergency, National Education continues to apply a strictly accounting logic. “
Claude Olive still wants to be optimistic for Jean-Jaurès and Aristide-Briand, where there is also a threat of job elimination. “We will continue to register children and we will review the point at the start of the September school year.” On the other hand, he is pessimistic for the Justin-Larrebat nursery school.
Kindergarten too
In addition, discontent also reigns between the walls of the Jean-Jaurès nursery school. Because, this time, of the succession of contractual replacements to make up for the absence of two teachers. Nonetheless foreseeable absences for the parents of the pupils.
In one case, it is a therapeutic half-time and in the other, a maternity leave. The parents of the students wrote to the Inspector of National Education in charge of Anglet to express their concern.
“He told us that there were no longer any regular substitute teachers available, but that he had full confidence in the contract workers, underlines the parents of nursery school students.” They nevertheless sent a letter to the departmental director of National Education and requested an appointment with Florence Lasserre, Member of Parliament (Modem) for the fifth constituency.
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