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Teachers not replaced: already more than 8,000 hours of lessons lost for Ile-de-France students

2021-03-04T11:40:22.281Z


This is a recurring problem: that of the non-replacement of absent teachers. And she has never been so screaming as with the screaming


"Teacher absent".

This red inscription, Sylvie

(the first name has been changed)

, mother of a family, dreads her.

Not a week has passed since the start of the year, without this mention appearing on the online timetable of his son Marc

(the first name has been changed)

, 14, in 3rd at Marie-Curie College , in Paris (18th).

Since the start of the school year, he has lost "81 hours of lessons

(Editor's note: out of 520 hours between September 1 and March 1)

, excluding the sport affected by the Covid restrictions, including more than 40 hours of French

(out of 80 hours)

, Sylvie is sorry.

That's 15.5% of uninsured class hours, the ratio is scary!

"

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However, before the winter vacation, "we were assured that the literature teacher would be replaced," she testifies.

The reality is different.

This week, Marc is losing another 4 hours in this essential subject.

Obviously, Sylvie is worried.

Just like this other mother whose daughter, Angèle

(the first name has been changed)

, who entered 6th grade this year at Marie-Curie, lost "108 hours of lessons, including 48 hours in French", she enraged. .

“We are in a priority education network college (REP) but these children are not at all, that makes me angry!

», Adds the one who points out« such a difference between speech and actions ».

"These figures are below reality"

If the question of non-replacement of teachers is "a recurring structural problem", deplores Rodrigo Arenas, co-president of the Federation of Parents' Councils (FCPE), it has become more pronounced this year with the health crisis.

"The Covid does more harm," abounds Florence, professor and activist of the CGT education union.

There are sick teachers, others vulnerable, contact cases ... ”The whole of Ile-de-France is affected.

According to the FCPE Ouyapacours platform, created in 2009, on which all parents can identify non-replaced class hours, Ile-de-France students, from kindergarten to high school, have lost 8,733 class hours since the start of the school year.

Of course, these are fragmented data, since they are based on declarative information.

It is therefore impossible to be exhaustive, especially as the regional education authorities have not responded to our requests.

"These figures are below reality," warns Rodrigo Arenas from the outset.

In Val-de-Marne, where 1,683 hours of non-replaced absences were recorded on the site, a strike of teachers is scheduled for Thursday at the Henri-Wallon college in Ivry-sur-Seine.

"We ask that our French colleague placed in Asa

(Editor's note: special leave of absence)

be finally replaced.

Tinkering does not make up for the lack of lessons ”, reacts a teacher disillusioned by the situation.

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The Brossolette colleges in Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, Rosa-Parks in Gentilly, Jean-Moulin in La Queue-en-Brie also have to deal with classes without a teacher.

Elementary is not spared.

In Vitry, at the Jean-Jaurès school, "we were at 144 half-days of absence not replaced before the holidays", details Florence.

In Argenteuil (Val-d'Oise), CM2 students were for several weeks without a teacher.

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If less than 15 days of absence, it is the teachers of the establishment, paid in overtime, who provide the replacements, beyond that, it is to the TZR (holders in the replacement area) that must be done appeal in the second degree.

Problem: "We are told that there are no more replacements available", annoys Florence.

Radouane M'Hamdi, principal and representative of the union of heads of establishments, agrees: “99% have a year-round assignment.

The rectorates, they refuse to communicate their number in the region.

In the Academy of Versailles, the largest in France, "where there are 33,408 full professors, the share of TZRs was 2210 last October. We had 2579 in 2016", explains Antoine Tardy, professor of mathematics in Val-d'Oise and activist Snes-FSU.

“In some subjects like math, it's been ten years since there are hardly any more.

"

"I would like my teacher to come back"

But in Marc and Angèle's classes at Marie-Curie college, the chair of the French teacher remains empty, no TZR.

"Maybe my classmates will not agree, but I would like my teacher to come back", slips in a small smile Angèle, 11, keen on reading.

If she manages to study when she is in the ward, it's more complicated for Marc.

“He's a good student, but like all teenagers, when he's with friends, he prefers to have fun,” says Sylvie.

He had a white patent for which he had to do a dictation, he had never done one before.

»Since then, Sylvie has had it for him at home once a week.

“I can't afford to pay him private lessons or put him in the private sector, those with the money do it and this is how we increase segregation.

"

Sylvie, Marc's mother, educated in 3rd at Marie-Curie College in Paris, has been recording since the beginning of the year each of the hours of lessons lost by her son, i.e. 81 hours.

LP / Maïram Guissé  

Sylvie, however, is satisfied with this college: “There is diversity, the teaching team is benevolent, but what is happening is unacceptable.

"With a group of parents, it was decided to create the Twitter account" Hello, the Ministry of National Education?

”In order to challenge elected officials and institutions and alert them to their situation.

For Rodrigo Arenas, the solution exists: “You have to hire as many as needed.

The National Education knows it but does not do it, but we know that the school is sick of the non-replacement of teachers.

"On its Ouyapacours platform, the FCPE offers parents of students a whole procedure to attack the State for" breach of equality of public service ".

Angela's mother plans, as did "thirty families from Seine-Saint-Denis last year," says Rodrigo Arenas, to enter the administrative court.

Source: leparis

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