Under the guise of "rebuild the school," the left continues the task begun by his
predecessors right. It is now the turn of Minister Peillon take its share of unwinding and
restructuring a school setting now considered obsolete and inefficient. Market demands of
labor and the cost of reproduction called according to formulas devoted to "initiate
reforms" and to "save." Prepared well before the election of Holland but imposed ex
nihilo, the implementation of the reform-rhythms against hidden behind a false controversy
maintained around the reorganization "of the time of the child", the objective of
commodify in the sub contractor, or any part of the activity. ---- Not only the Socialists
returned to any measures which, under the Sarkozy government, they had mobilized against
some primary school teachers: the dragnets by the "Base student" server, reducing the
child to a sum of " micro-skills "through the creation of" Personal Skills Booklet
"restricting the right of teachers to strike with the obligation to declare strike 48
hours in advance, measuring always accompanies a hosting service called" minimum "- but
they have the added bonus imposed their forehead" reform school rhythms. "
The starting point is simple, if not simplistic: the French schoolchildren school days
among the longest in Europe with the number of days the lower school. The organization of
school time is one of the main causes of poor performance in the survey conducted under
the auspices of the OECD results (1) and announced by Peillon before they are made public ...
Streamline time parcelliser "skills"
Now, students will work nine half-days in the week instead of the previous eight. This,
incidentally, is only applying to literally an amendment already contained in the Decree
of the Minister Darcos right, dated 15 May 2008 (2) ... Priority is given to the morning
time slots reserved for learning, the release time is converted in the afternoon called
"extracurricular" activities. To justify this new development, the team Peillon amalgam
issue of the weekly student attendance than the access to so-called "cultural" practices
inequality. A demonstration without coherence or report found that reduces the conditions
of access to culture - what culture elsewhere? - A simple timetable case.
In order to establish the legitimacy of their policy, the socialists are added services
"experts Chronobiology." These specialists are able to abstract a "time of the child", the
measured time, imposed on all human activity during the market society (3). In this case,
recognize that there is no intention qualitative. It sucks in reality only streamline the
cost of time spent by the student in learning. Nothing new, if not controlled by adjusting
the current arrangements for social reproduction. So, this time will be subject to
streamlined learning parceled into "micro-competences" which results, after evaluation,
will be recorded in the draconian and controversial "Booklet Personal Skills." Chain end,
a new handful of scientists, those of PISA, evaluate based on the results of compliance
promised and expected the education system. In summary, we are confronted in this case a
form of sub-Taylorism adjusted to the school environment, in line with market expectations
of employment. It goes without saying that this "time of the child", as is the listed our
experts, is harmoniously its limit begins where the interests of the entertainment
industry and tourism, ie precisely at the Friday afternoon, the day before the weekend ...
"Reform Rhythms" in action
In a first time, seventeen hundred cities that have chosen to apply the decree this year
began with drum up Spatial staff and put in order. In some municipalities, job
descriptions were changed without consultation or compensation and sometimes Patents
Aptitude Animator past emergency and allocated in the wake function. Derogatory manner,
rates of child frames have been modified and revised upwards since August 2013. The
account is not there, the most zealous municipalities and better equipped recruited
workers under private law paid EUR 7.39 net per hour for three hours of work per week (4).
The result was not long in coming. "The Learning Differently", according to Ministerial
formula is given to see it for what it really is: a muddle that maintains purposely
confuse school and "extracurricular" activities, a simple display that does not fool
anyone since the real meaning of that nestles against-reform elsewhere. In municipalities
headed by ministers in place, such as Boulogne-sur-mer, for example, the effort is the
first in propaganda in order to swallow the pill in the population. In an atmosphere of
Potemkin village, official visits successive novels pictures municipal publications and
injunctions to rain down at any cost, to hold the line. Moreover, politics are found where
additional land to flaunt his misery. So do you observe on the eve of municipal elections,
the Left Front, for example, challenge the street Peillon policy and defend the same day
facing strikers and parents came to claim accounts in paneling City Hall ...
What work Socialists
If the state does not yet revealed its full level, several signals that provide a glimpse
into what we are heading. With the "Reform Rhythms", it is also relying on the
decentralization law in order to pass the organization of school time under the control of
local authorities. A measure justified in the period by declining public funding and
supported by the transfer of activities outsourced. It is in this specific context, that
of a partnership agreement with the Ministry of Youth and Sports, the Total group has
pledged $ 4 million, to fund extracurricular activities plan Peillon (5).
These initial measures were immediately challenged by those who see it essentially a
challenge to the national framework for education and "Equal Republican." In fact, reading
a recent report by the Court of Auditors, we understand that it is the first act of a more
ambitious plan. In one of the latest information delivered to the government, the court
recommends revising procedures for assignment of personnel to "straighten student
achievement," believing that "reform package management arrangements" is required ( 6).
Finally, everything becomes clear when one learns that the operation will involve the
second degree as soon as elementary schools. The so-called "reconstruction" projects law
in effect, to extend the "reform rhythms" to colleges and high schools.
In the first stage, the shift to flexibility and the annualization of working time is
already a reality. Since September, mobile teachers working alternately in constituencies
where applicable and do not apply the cumulative reform illegally timeouts service that
the framework established by the administration knows that they can recover. It is also
the organization cycle schools that overflows from this year in college. It also increases
the "Elementary / College" joint teaching activities as "Rally" embellished meetings,
consultations, workshops and plenary common ...
It is therefore the deregulation of education systems and their creeping privatization
referred through this against-reform. The objective pursued by the socialist government
takes, it will be understood, less research for the development of the child and the case
of the status of workers.
Mobilization on the ground
Shortly after the beginning of September, so far managed the feat of uniting against it
and in a timely convergence parents cheated on merchandise but firmly opposed to any
politician recovery (7), territorial fait accompli , teachers angered by yet another shift
imposed without consultation and disoriented contractors and resigned in turn. A pleasure
not to sulk when you know the flop that was the same period the non-action over pensions.
Since then, several municipalities have preferred to stop the experiment en route mainly
under pressure from mobilized parents. They also challenged the government on its own
ground, that of representativeness. Questionnaires developed and distributed by parents
with families did lie advanced by the Department to impose its numbers. In institutions
where families are widely expressed, the results of the recount showed up more than 70% of
dissatisfaction and a large majority demanded the repeal or modification of the decree.
On 13 November, the day of national boycott organized again at the initiative of the
parents was a real success. In many places where the boycott is applied, teachers made
progress before virtually empty classes.
To win: go beyond the defense of corporate interests
Among teachers, of course, things are not moving in the same train. The majority of
first-degree unions support the government in power and are involved in monitoring the
reform in the joint bodies. It was in Paris, for the moment, that the mobilization is the
strongest. Where essentially the basis of SNUIPP, against the positions of its management
multiplies very day strikes followed. Since the fall, this policy has cost SNUIPP the
departure of more than a thousand members, which, we must admit, is a pretty good sign ...
Elsewhere, the days of strikes on 14 November and 5 December 2013 have been relatively
successful if we take into account that 80% of schools do not yet apply the reform.
So, hopefully in the coming year that the real balance of power will incur. This will
depend primarily on the qu'adopteront attitude towards teachers union devices that claim
to represent. It has become crucial to win something after years of setbacks, it is
equally important to achieve by saying collectively, in contrast to the often individual
resistance, isolated, sometimes quasi-clandestine conducted by some teachers in the
Sarkozy years.
And finally because it is never too late to start to do well, the time has perhaps come
for teachers to go beyond the defense of a mythical status and public service. Do not
understand how it becomes ridiculous to face the market logic is at work by hiding behind
a symbolic function completely devalued, that state, he has long understood ...
In schools, teachers are now working in conjunction with multiple categories of
undocumented workers, insecure and constantly increasing. The arrival on the premises of
the contractors Peillon reform is the latest illustration. It is now in the direction of
these workers that few teachers in a class position, unionized or not, must turn to thwart
attempts to divide municipalities left endeavor to encourage since September. Following
yet to be written ...
A worker of social reproduction. Boulogne-sur-mer, the 12/16/13.
(1) About PISA, reading: "Pisa, what a useful fetish, in:"
http://www.questionsdeclasses.org/ ...?
(2) See, Claire Leconte (which in turn supports the reform): Rationale demonstrating the
absurdity of the decree issued under the Act for the rebuilding of the school.
http://www.claireleconte. com / pages / ...
(3) On the relation that the "Capital" to "Time", read or reread with profit the classic
ED Thompson, entitled "Time, work discipline and industrial capitalism." Excerpt: "In the
organization of work in the planning of recreation, use of space in the design of everyday
life, these are all structures of modern capitalist society which arise from the workings
of the measured time. "
(4) One of them says: "TAP is the worst organization ever seen; delirium and now I pay for
it 3h/week while we swore to me that would be the RSA unaffected. There I had 100 euros
and 180 removes me ... "
(5) ... http://www.sudeducation.org/Rythmes
(6) "Managing teachers differently." Report of the Court of Auditors dated 22 May 2013.
(7) attempts to recover the challenge from the right have all failed for the moment. For
its part, the CIPF supports reform, but seems well insulated, and some locals have stood
in the direction joining the protest
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