“The college has been waiting for this formalization of REP status (“priority education network”) for six years, it is time to do it!
“, annoys Magali, parent of a 5th grade student educated in the Seligmann college, in the 10th arrondissement.
Like other parents of students, she came Thursday morning to support the seventeen teachers of the college, all on strike since the resumption of classes.
In front of the college and the surroundings of a primary school in the neighborhood, they invite parents of students to sign their petition to put an end to an “absurd” situation, as Magali describes it.
Because since the start of the school year, the teachers have been campaigning assiduously for their establishment to be officially classified as "REP", as is the case for the three neighboring primary schools, which supply the college.
“The means of teaching for the pupils of the priority education network have been provided to us, such as the limitation of the number of pupils per class to 25. But the rectorate does not provide the means for the teachers, that is to say say a bonus, ”explains Pascal Moncey, a mathematics teacher for 10 years at Seligmann College.
"In terms of salary, that means we don't get 1,753 euros," says Jérôme Férec, SVT professor.
The college of 300 students, opened in 2012, is classified CAPP (Multiannual Academic Convention of Educational Priority), specifies the rectorate, "which allows it to benefit from additional means (for example less than 25 students per class) ".
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In front of the Vicq d'Azir primary school located 500 meters from the college and classified as REP, several parents from the neighborhood signed the petition handed to them by the teachers of Seligmann.
“It's important to support them,” explains a parent of a primary school student.
"The teachers still do a job that is not simple," says Véronique, whose son is in 5th grade at Seligmann College.
Contacted, the rectorate of the Paris academy, which says it has received teachers from the college three times, explains that the establishment "has an IPS (social positioning index, editor's note) which does not allow it to come under education priority.
The decision to classify priority education is at the national level.
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The rectorate adds that this classification “could not be studied until the next revision of the priority education map.
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The teachers had decided to renew the strike for a fifth day on Friday.
The parents of Seligmann college students will be received on Tuesday evening at the rectorate of Paris.