Friday April 5, eve of the holidays. Carole Ayache has just dropped off her son Olivier at school. Once is not customary, because since the start of the school year, due to the lack of a teacher, she has often preferred to take him home. “It’s simple: when there is no replacement, we turn around and do homework. Leave him at school to color or read a book in his corner at the back of another classroom? “There’s no point,” considers this mother from Montrouge.
Since last September, the Aristide-Briand school seems cursed. Absences of unreplaced teachers multiplied, to the point that, on certain days, four teachers could be absent at the same time due to illness or caring for a sick child, with no alternative solution. A “chance”, in the words of management addressed to parents, which means that this year the school “is unfortunately very exposed” to the problem.
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