2023-06-21 16:00:00
“I put climate, environmental and energy issues at the center of my teaching, explains Max Stockmans, now a former geography teacher at Collège d’Alzon in Bure. This took away my right to teach. I have just ‘to be made redundant’, he wrote in a long white card on the site of our colleagues from La Libre Belgique.
Secondary school students end their school career quite incapable of mastering these issues for the citizens of tomorrow. How is this still possible? The cry of scientists is however unanimous. All the signals are red!” he said in substance.
The organizing power of the Collège d’Alzon heard the teacher on Monday evening as provided for in the procedure for the non-renewal of his temporary contract initiated some time ago and which we told you regarding in a previous edition.
“We scrupulously respected the regulations in this area, specifies Gilbert Kaye, president of the organizing power. Mr. Stockmans was accompanied by a union representative from the CSC. We examined together the criticisms made and we listened to the teacher for a long time. We were not convinced by his defense arguments. We took the decision to dismiss him. He was served with it on Wednesday morning.”
“Not just because of the program”
As for the explanations and feelings of the professor who affirms that he has remedied the shortcomings of the program which is not adapted to the urgency of the climatic and environmental issues, the president of the PO cannot hear them.
“I can speak more freely regarding what the inspection report contains now that he himself has made it public, he continues. The opinion of the Wallonia-Brussels federation is very negative and it is on the one We are basing our decision on the dismissal. As soon as he was hired as a temporary worker, Mr. Stockmans was warned that the school relied on an external opinion, that of the Federation, before a possible appointment. He was reminded of this. at the end of the first year, because we were already noticing shortcomings, he was asked to correct them.
And at the end of this second year, there was this detailed and detailed report resulting from three days of presence of the inspection in the class. The report was catastrophic and concluded that there were clear shortcomings with regard to the preparatory documents for the course, the pedagogical approaches, the evaluation of the students which is not in conformity and the non-respect of the program.
It is therefore not only this last point which, in reality, is not a shortcoming, but a desire to oppose a program which the professor considers too naive.
On the contrary, the program is designed so that the student acquires a critical mind in relation to these issues. The report even goes so far as to advise the teacher to change professions.
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