Gone are the strollers, the children and a good part of the supports. This Thursday, January 20, the second day of mobilization of national education staff aroused less enthusiasm in Paris. According to the police headquarters, the demonstrators were 750, once morest 8,200 the previous week. However, several left-wing unions, including the FSU, the CGT Educ’action, Sud Education, as well as the parents of FCPE students had called to gather in the street, even though the demonstration had not been authorized. , because not declared in time.
Following the major mobilization of January 13, the trade unions had obtained some progress from Jean-Michel Blanquer. In addition to the five million FFP2 masks promised, the minister had announced nearly 3,300 recruitments of contract workers to compensate for the absence of unreplaced teachers. But for some teachers, like Flavien Lesueur, high school Spanish teacher in Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis) and unionized at the FNES, this will not be enough. “It’s a lot of communication but few things really put in place and effective, he believes. With us, there is a constant shortage of fifteen teachers and a quarter of the students. What will change? We became a daycare centre, once morest our will. »
If the announcements did not win over some of the staff, the “Ibizagate”, as some demonstrators call it, did not help matters. Monday, Mediapart revealed that Jean-Michel Blanquer was in the Balearic Islands when announcing the new health protocol for the start of the school year in January. Information that the demonstrators did not hesitate to divert in the procession. Adorned with straw hats, colorful clothes and flower necklaces, many of them blamed the minister for his vacation. “The way to announce it, the context behind it, it’s really the last straw”, summarizes Grégoire Caillaux, a substitute school teacher in Bobigny, accompanied by his two children, whom he might not keep.
Precariousness and working conditions
Apart from the teachers, the educational assistants (AED) and the support for students with disabilities (AESH) were also present to assert their claims. Denouncing the precariousness of their jobs and their working conditions, they are asking for their status to be upgraded and for more hiring. “I am paid 738 euros per month for not being able to do my job in good conditions, annoys Clarisse Poussin, AESH in Val-de-Marne. We are constantly understaffed and with the health crisis, it has gotten worse. Taking care of two or three handicapped children in the same class is just impossible. »
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