Supporters of students with disabilities (AESH) will be on strike this Tuesday, for the fourth time this year.
The call to demonstrate was launched by the national intersyndicale CGT Éducation, FNEC-FP-FO, FSU, SNALC, SNCL-FAEN, SUD-Éducation.
About 90 gatherings are planned today, according to Manuel Guyader, representative of the intersyndicale for SUD-Education.
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Numbering 110,000, or 10% of National Education officials, these contractual civil servants claim civil servant status and an increase in their salaries.
They had benefited in August from an improvement in their salary scale but consider it insufficient given the ever increasing number of dependent pupils.
Since the implementation of the 2005 law on equal opportunities for people with disabilities, the number of pupils to follow has tripled to reach 385,000 pupils last June, when 35,000 of them had not. could not be followed by an AESH, according to the collective citizen handicap.
Faced with this growing burden, the PIALs have been set up, inclusive local support poles, which consist in pooling support resources between schools. But they arouse the anger of the inter-union. "
We are asked to support more and more students for fewer and fewer hours
[...] [sometimes]
four, five or six students, sometimes in several schools or in several establishments, sometimes simultaneously
»Explains Manuel Guyader. “
The students find themselves with a number of hours of support which has dropped drastically this year, namely five or six hours per week, out of the 24 hours of class at primary school, or more if they are in college or in high school
»Continues the representative for SUD-Education.