What lessons can be learned from the first sketch of the school map that will shape the next school year? Firstly, that the balance of staff, on a positive dynamic, will lead to the arrival of two additional teaching posts.
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2 job assignments
A classic likely to shake, sometimes, the educational world. The Academy Inspection released its sacrosanct school map on February 14. Good news: Thionville is assigned two elementary positions. The first, after a conclusive experimental phase since the beginning of the year, reinforces the teaching team of the Gérard-Clément school. In detail, the establishment will have, in September 2023, five professors. The second position will benefit the whole city. A teacher called UPE2A, an acronym meaning Educational Unit for incoming allophone pupils, will facilitate the mastery of French for children from abroad.
1 withdrawal
“There is nothing to worry about. Emmanuel Bertin, elected municipal official in charge of school affairs, is not alarmed by the withdrawal of a position at the Victor-Hugo school. The establishment, in the first ring of the city, is part of a residential area “where the turnover of residents is rather low”. The decision of the great academic arbiter would have a relative impact on classes composed, until now, of 22 students. With one post less, the average will be a maximum of 25 children per class: “It’s acceptable to me. This cause is not arguable. »
1re grind
This school map is only at the stage of the first sketch. To shape it, the Academic Inspectorate uses projections combining its own data as well as those notified by the city. The positions can still move at the end of the school registration phase, which has just started. Finally, the latest changes are likely to occur the same day of the start of the school year: “A priori, there should be no counting, anticipates Emmanuel Bertin. We do not identify sectors in tension as was sometimes the case in the past. »
3,487 students
A little lesson in general culture: the city has 34 kindergartens and elementary schools, which is equivalent to 151 classes. Other more telling data: 3,487 pupils are educated in Thionville, ie 62 more than the previous year: “Our zone is the only one in the Moselle district to experience a positive development”, affines Emmanuel Bertin. It is difficult not to detect a link with the demographic renewal of Thionville. Mayor Pierre Cuny, very attached to this gain of inhabitants, must be delighted…
