If the accession of "left" in power was a hope for the staff of the Education reform
proposals announced by Vincent Peillon have quickly destroyed. Inventory of departmental
projects ... and What resistance against the teachers of the first degree. ---- Class
sizes, support for pupils, replacements, initial and ongoing training, injunctions and
finicky controls, the working conditions of teachers in primary schools has deteriorated
significantly in recent years. The demands of the corporation were strong during the
change of majority, even if nobody rocked illusions. But with the bill on rebuilding the
school, disillusionment can only give way to anger against that which is a new attack
against the school and those who make it. ---- Key measure: the reform of school timetables.
It wanted by Vincent Peillon as a prerequisite for the "rebuilding of the school" project
does nothing to improve the learning conditions of students and degrades a little more
working conditions and lives of different professionals working with children.
Specifically, the child gets up one more day a week (Wednesday) and see his classroom time
reduce by three-quarters of an hour per day, but the time spent in school increased by
three hours per week. We can easily imagine, with such a pace, the children will be more
fit to learn.
Work more to work more ...
Once again, the interests of the children does not count. By cons, what we see easily
profile, these are the signs of a withdrawal of the state, since the daily schedule
generated by the reform is given to municipalities that will be in charge of "occupy"
Children extracurricular activities. For this are established territorial Educational
Projects (PET), a kind of contract between the state and municipalities. The latter will
be responsible for determining in part the working hours of teachers. In addition, a new
decree will set the weight common in school councils. No, what is at stake is especially a
reform that fundamentally alters the organization of schools and increases regional
inequalities. Some compare this reform the laws on decentralization and autonomy of
universities (LRU) that lead to glaring inequalities between regions and universities.
While 90% of rural communities and nearly all of the "big cities" have postponed the
implementation of the reform, the Mayor of Paris wants its implementation for September
2013. " It is a challenge and I confess I'm a little scared , "said Bertrand Delanoe
remembering that he had failed to reform the Parisian school timetables in 2002 face, even
then, a massive mobilization Teachers. " Why so soon? "ask parents and teachers who dare
to assume, without wishing to impugn motives, the City of Paris has not the means to
implement such a reform to the conditions of guidance currently exists on extracurricular
time, especially during the lunch break. By the admission of Bertrand Delano? trade unions
received - very late - in delegations, 2014 is an election year and it should pass before
the reform.
Paris is a particular issue in the ministerial system because it is especially from the
capital that must undertake reform. If there is no separation between the school and the
extracurricular activities, how can it not be confusion and therefore tutelage of teachers
by the City?
Unanimous hostility
Under these conditions, the Parisian movement has grown from the beginning. Between 85 and
90% of strikers January 22 and February 12 is unheard of. And mobilization is not
weakening. The Mayor of Paris has held four public meetings "information" on the issue has
been systematically booed by parents and professionals working with children flocked
remember that this reform can not be done against them and they .
The management of the mutual fund (the main federation of parents), which seems to go hand
in hand with the city fails to achieve unanimity among its members. Instead, many are
those who rally against reform and participate in actions initiated by the educational
staff. Moreover, a petition was put online to request the postponement of the
implementation of the reform [ 1 ]. However, the City of Paris will continue in the same
way. While the decree Peillon almost unanimous against him to the Higher Education
Council, Delanoe wished to force. The Council adopted the Paris March 25 the principle of
reform and its implementation in September 2013 thanks to the votes of the Greens Europe
Ecology.
Expand the challenge
The new orientation law and rebuilding the school, presented by Vincent Peillon, lies in
the strict continuity of educational policy of previous governments. All-against reforms
enacted since the Fillon law of 2005 are thus confirmed maternal bachelor. The common
base, which establishes lessons at a discount, even erected by the Holland / Government
Ayrault in "organizing principle" of compulsory education. Behind this name is the desire
to strengthen a school in two speeds, one for the elite and the majority of young people
whose sole ambition is to summarize the mastery of academic bases.
In addition, with this draft guidance law, the government lays the foundation for further
attacks against public education, personal and youth:
this law takes the national framework of school;
This law also makes the staff regulations.
I must say, the inclusion in the law of the creation of 60 000 jobs is a smoke firing, a
fiction that does not stand up to examination schedules and school endowments cards for
September 2013. Similarly, there is no trace of an embryo recovery training of teachers,
but rather a format that fits into the goal of redefining the missions and statutes in
still existing framework of "mastering".
National Mobilization March 28, launched by several national federations of Education
(CGT, FO, South CNT), was not up to the challenges. If the main federation, FSU continues
to go it alone - it calls for a demonstration Saturday, April 6 - on very tentative basis,
Vincent Peillon will soon boast of having succeeded his "reconstruction". At the expense
of students and staff.
Gilles (Ami AL)
[ 1 ] The petition is available on fcpenousaussi.wesign.it / en
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