This time, it's the street test for Amélie Oudéa-Castéra.
This Thursday, February 1, the teaching unions are calling for a strike and planning a strong mobilization.
The FSU-SNuipp, the majority primary school union, is counting on “
an average of 40% of strikers in the territory
”, with “
65% of strikers in Paris, more than 50% in Val-de-Marne, Drôme, 'Ardèche or even in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques
'.
In the minister's entourage, people talk about "
a movement which should be relatively followed
".
In Paris, a demonstration will leave at 2 p.m. from Luxembourg (6th arrondissement) towards the Ministry of National Education.
The call for mobilization dates back to December 22.
At the time, while Gabriel Attal was Minister of Education and had just presented his measures for the “shock of knowledge”, four unions (FSU, FO, CGT and Sud Éducation) called for the traditional January strike “
to wages and working conditions
.
They also denounce Minister Attal's announcements on level groups in middle school, repeating a year and even the uniform.
A “
backward-looking and conservative project
,” they write.
On January 12, the surprise appointment of Amélie Oudéa-Castéra to Education - in addition to her Sports and Olympics cap -, followed by her original blunder on the schooling of her children at Stanislas, fueled the anger of the occupation.
And offers unions a unifying slogan around “
the defense of public schools
”.
“Shock of knowledge” and groups of contested levels
“
Our organizations strongly reaffirm their attachment to the educational project of public, secular, free and compulsory school
,” explains the inter-union which, since the beginning of January, also includes Unsa and Sgen-CFDT.
We denounce the denigrating remarks, like the words of the Minister of National Education, against those who keep public schools alive
.
In addition to the salary increase, the unions are calling for the abandonment of measures linked to the shock of knowledge, “
which lays the foundations of a School of social sorting
”.
Starting with the level groups, which “
will help assign students to social and academic positions
”.
We are going to the wall in terms of organization
Sophie Vénétitay (Snes) about level groups.
As Gabriel Attal announced in December, these level groups in French and mathematics must be set up from September 2024, in 6th and 5th grade classes.
The weakest group should not exceed 15 students.
Some 2,300 positions have been directed to this system.
But the endowments which have just arrived in the colleges are proving insufficient.
Organizing timetables promises to become a headache.
And the implementation timetable seems very short.
In this big machine that is National Education, the start of the school year begins in January.
“It’s neither done nor to be done
,” annoys Jean-Rémi Girard, president of Snalc, although he is in favor of the principle of level groups.
The timing was initially untenable.
It is even less so with the change of minister.”
In secondary education, anger therefore crystallizes in colleges.
“We are going to the wall in terms of organization,”
believes Sophie Vénétitay, at Snes, the majority secondary school union.
Won't students with special educational needs, handicaps and disorders systematically find themselves in the weak group?
Will we have enough maths and French teachers?
», she asks.
“AOC” defends a “roadmap for builders”
Those around Amélie Oudéa-Castéra explain that the minister, since taking office, “
has refined and defined her roadmap
”.
In his own words, it is “
the road map of the builders
”, which must decline the presidential project for education and the announcements of Gabriel Attal, now at Matignon.
The Minister “
will deploy the same method
” as in the Ministry of Sports, it is further explained.
Namely “
careful in-depth work
” on the files, “
a principle of consultation and dialogue in transparency
”, “
courage and action
”.
Formulas which find little resonance among the social partners.
“
She has lost all credibility on National Education issues
,” says Snes.
“
His situation is inextricable.
She is caught between the President of the Republic and the Prime Minister
, believes Bruno Bobkiewicz, at SNPDEN-Unsa, the first management staff union.
On January 30, during her videoconference with the heads of establishments, the Minister was widely questioned about the level groups.
“
She tries to respond to our requests.
She is struggling as best she can on a file that she is undergoing and which she cannot control for the moment
,” summarizes Bruno Bobkiewicz.