Teachers at Guy Gérard elementary school in Pacé, in Ille-et-Vilaine, have been on strike since Monday, following physical violence once morest a teacher by one of her students.
Another strike day at the Guy Gérard school in Pacé. Since Monday, the teachers of this elementary school have been on a renewable strike following the attack on one of the mistress by one of her students, on Tuesday, November 22.
That day, at the start of a PE session, a CM2 student was unable to manage his frustration and entered into a violent verbal and physical crisis towards his teacher, explained to BFMTV the Rennes Academy. The student hit the teacher, in particular with shoes, and tried to hit her with crutches, before another child intervened to stop him.
The 10-year-old child had already changed schools at the end of last year “for behavioral problems and sudden outbursts of violence.” But he did not benefit from any particular accompaniment.
He did not have AESH, a request had been made before the incident
It was only this Thursday, two days following the events, that the Departmental House for the Disabled (MDPH) notified National Education of the need for the boy to have an AESH.
“The notifications came to us on Thursday. Until then, he had no support”, says at the microphone of BFMTV Corinne Gontard, who explains that a file had been submitted to the MDPH well before this Tuesday, without specifying explicitly the date.
“In general, the requests are studied within four months”, says the Deputy Inspector.
However, Corinne Gontard assures that the student “was not disabled” at the start of the school year. “The situation of disability is opened by notifications from the MDPH (…) It was not a student waiting for a place [dans un établissement spécialisé]it’s a new situation that we discover.”
A lack of resources
The boy’s family will soon be received by the academic management of the department, in order to consider the care and support for this young boy who suffers from behavioral problems. On Monday, a delegation of parents of students was also received.
With BFMTV, the Unsa union, which is following the file because the attacked teacher is a member, explains that for several years, this type of situation has been increasing. And denounces the lack of means granted by the government to allow sufficient support for students.
In Ille-et-Vilaine, according to the union, there would be a lack of more than a hundred accompanying persons for students with disabilities (AESH). At the national level, 125,000 AESH were recruited in 2021 by National Education and more than 400,000 children with disabilities were educated in ordinary schools that same year.
But support is sometimes not enough. And teachers find themselves managing, without always being trained, students with disabilities.
