2072 hours of teaching abolished, 99 teaching positions in the trap as of the start of the September 2021 school year. Parisian colleges and high schools had never been hit hard at this point.
The historically low global hourly allowance (DHG), announced at the beginning of the month for the capital by the Minister of National Education Jean-Michel Blanquer, was greeted as a real cold shower by teachers and parents of students.
And sparked a real outcry among the trade unions (SNES-FSU, SNUEP-FSU, SNFOLC, SNETAA-FO, Sud education and CGT Educ'Action) which organized a large rally in front of the rectorate on February 3.
Denouncing in chorus "a new bleeding".
Overcrowded classes in sight
“The announced drop in class hours is unprecedented, the unions are indignant.
In middle school, 468 hours will be eliminated… That is a total of 800 hours since September 2020!
Impossible, therefore, to duplicate the groups of living and ancient languages.
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“General and technological high schools will lose 758 hours, even though 303 additional students will return to school in 2021. Vocational and SEP high schools will be withdrawn 738 hours, SEGPA and EREA, 108. Even UPE2A,
( Editor's note
: educational units for newcomer allophone students, who welcome many migrant children) will be harmed, while the Minister of National Education speaks of inclusion as a major issue.
The objective of the lycée reform is to ensure that the means of education are adapted to an austerity budgetary framework applied to national education ”, tackles the intersyndicale.
Overcrowded classes, degraded learning conditions for students, reduced training offer, exhausted staff ... All this in an anxiety-provoking health climate, while the schooling of students is still marked by the pandemic, analyze parents, teachers and unions alike. voice.
The Paris Academy assumes its choices
To these drastic cuts, a main reason advanced by the rectorate: to rebalance the situation between Paris and other less well-off sectors.
“Of course 99 positions are being eliminated, but the numbers of students are stable and the capital is much more advantaged, sociologically, than other territories, underlines Antoine Destres, director of the Paris academy.
And we keep the means to do a satisfactory job.
"" In addition, he adds, national priority has been given to the first degree: since 2017, Paris has lost more than 16,000 students and yet gains 160 school teacher positions.
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But, in the midst of a health crisis, and while we are pointing at nearly 10,000 hours of uninsured lessons in the second degree, the clear cuts made in the overall hourly staffing have ignited the powder.
The FCPE has just launched a petition, intended for Jean-Michel Blanquer, denouncing "the breakage of National Education".
"The teaching profession continues to deteriorate"
“While the educational offer and the budget allocated per pupil decrease each year, the teaching profession continues to deteriorate, to the point of losing all attractiveness for non-tenured persons.
The effects of the managerial policy are such that it is today impossible for the Rectorate of Paris to find enough candidates for the posts of AED and teachers ”, underlines the federation of parents of pupils.
And to add: “And now, Parisian students are suffering the highest hourly staffing decrease in France in the name of an alignment with neighboring academies.
Instead of responding to requests, the institution prefers to level down.
We demand a reassessment!
Today, the teaching conditions allowing all students to progress are not met: an emergency plan must finally be put in place so as not to sacrifice the future of our children to a budgetary rigor that only current at the Ministry of National Education.
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"We are leveling down, it's detestable"
Patrick Bloche is deputy mayor (PS) of Paris in charge of education.
LP / Olivier Corsan
Patrick Bloche, deputy (PS) for education of the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, denounces the historic drop in teaching hours in secondary education, at the start of the 2021 school year, which nothing justifies according to him.
He also fears that the less privileged colleges and high school students are the most impacted.
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What is your view on the decrease in the means granted to the Paris Academy?
PATRICK BLOCHE.
The emotion is enormous, in all, and the consequences will be strong.
This is the largest drop in overall hourly staffing in France that the Ministry of National Education tries to justify by claiming that Paris enjoys a historic overcrowding compared to other academies.
So we choose to level down: it's detestable!
A representative of the FCPE recently pointed out to us that such cuts had not taken place since the five-year term of Nicolas Sarkozy ... Even though Jean-Michel Blanquer, the current Minister of National Education, was at the time director general of school education ...
What consequences do you fear for the second degree?
These announcements come in the midst of a health crisis, when thousands of hours of lessons could not be provided and we no longer have the capacity to replace them.
I fear that these drastic cuts will particularly impact colleges and high schools in the north-east, many of which are in difficulty.
Because we see Paris as a rich city, but it is also the academy where the gap is the most important between institutions welcoming disadvantaged students and upper classes.
Even the UPE2A, which are essential for non-French speaking students, very numerous, see their teaching hours undermined.
Only Les Ulis, the units located for inclusive education, which welcome disabled students, have been preserved.
But I do not blame the rectorate: it simply does what the Minister of National Education asks of it.
Working-class neighborhoods are therefore likely to be the most penalized ...
I think so.
Especially since a second bad blow has just been dealt to us by Jean-Michel Blanquer: while we were working on the creation of two educational cities, in the 14th and 18th, where several colleges in difficulty were to be brought together, with additional resources, we have just learned that the projects were not selected.