This is a rare decision by parents and teacher unions in Eure-et-Loir.
Fifteen members of the Departmental Council of National Education, out of the thirty which make it up, refused to take part in the commission at the prefecture in Chartres (Eure-et-Loir), this Wednesday March 13.
“To boycott a CDEN (departmental council of National Education), the quorum must not be reached.
We therefore need fifteen absentees.
There are ten staff representatives, which means that the parents of the students have joined us.
This is what happened this morning,” announced Pierre Licout, FSU departmental co-secretary.
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The inter-union Snes, Snep, FSU, Unsa and FO, and the parents' association FCPE 28 thus maintain a certain pressure on the academic management, Évelyne Mège, while around forty class closures in kindergarten and primary are planned for the start of the school year.
What strikes the union this year is the diversity of closures planned in the department.
“In other years, we had in turn, priority education which suffered then the rural world, there all sectors are impacted,” comments the professor.
In middle school, six positions in secondary education will be eliminated “even though the demographics are stable with seventy-seven fewer students out of a total of more than eighteen thousand” insists Pierre Licout.
The last CDEN boycott dates back more than four years.
It also reflects a lack of listening from the academic director, Évelyne Mège.
The FSU complains of a “clear lack of dialogue.
Since covid, it has removed the school delegations which allowed establishments to physically defend their situation and replaced them by filling out a form within extremely tight deadlines.
Postponed to March 22
These decisions must be put to a vote, and are therefore not considered as recorded.
The next CDEN is postponed by nine days.
The meeting is scheduled for Friday March 22.
In addition to the resources allocated locally, the FSU points the finger at a school that is doing poorly, due to the lack of clarity from the government.
“On December 5, 2023, Gabriel Attal, then Minister of National Education, announced a shock of knowledge with the establishment of level groups.
Three months later, these new measures are still only ministerial remarks and not a regulatory text,” asserts the trade unionist.
Trade union organizations and parent associations will continue their actions by participating in the national mobilization for the public service on March 19 at 10:30 a.m. in front of the prefecture in Chartres (Eure-et-Loir).
At the heart of the processions, the demonstrators will demand better pay and more resources allocated to state agents, hospitals or communities to carry out their missions.