There are several hundred of them, most of whom are temporary workers or who have become tenured after years of precarious contracts.
Their students, some 27,000 "listeners" each year, a third of them in French lessons, come from all walks of life, and return to school to catch up on abandoned schooling, to train in particular subjects for professional purposes, to learn language. language of the country where they hope to (re) make their life: the teachers of the municipal courts of adults (CMA) of the City of Paris come out of anonymity to defend their rights, perhaps their very existence, after the announcement an overhaul of their contracts which is causing a lot of concern.
A reform discussed at the Paris Council
“What is emerging are fewer hours of lessons and a drop in salary for some, more hours for the same salary for the lucky ones! ", Explains the collective of contractual professors created to" organize the defense ". "We will also be deprived of the hours of educational engineering, that is to say all the work of research and preparation for teaching which is very important to us, which allows us to exchange among ourselves, which is enriching and necessary. to the quality of teaching! They are alarmed. The reform plans to entrust this "educational engineering" to external contributors.
For teachers, this reform, which must be voted on at the next Paris Council, scheduled for December 14 to 17, is "contempt for what we are and what we give professionally", as well as cowardly Maylis, who teaches the French to foreigners for 20 years, 14 hours a week at several sites in the capital, including the high school on Boulevard de Belleville (10th district), the second after the adult high school in Alésia (14th century). “We have been precarious throughout our career, and we are for the most part forced to run between several places of course to hope for a decent salary, so we do not want a reform that will make us even more precarious! », Proclaims a teacher. For Karine, French and Chinese teacher in the city's adult classes,but also ergonomics and psychology at the university, "entrusting our work of pedagogical preparation to people outside who do not know this universe, it is a loss of meaning of our work. It's hacking ”. And to conclude: "these courses open to all without discrimination, in particular to foreigners, must be preserved, insist the two teachers, and to preserve them it is also necessary to preserve those who teach there!" "
