Monday, February 4, although the ringtones sound, the Elie Gibs and Ghislaine Rogers schools are deserted.
"When we arrived at 7:6 this morning, we noticed that chains and padlocks had been placed on all the exits of the school," explains Josette Jeffry, director of Ghislaine Rogers nursery school. On the other side of the street, her colleague Florence Erélie, director of the primary school Elie Gibs made the same observation: “when the guard arrived this morning at XNUMX am padlocks blocked all the exits. There were no messages, no claims. We don't know who did this. ” And to clarify: "all the teachers were present so it has nothing to do with the teachers".
As no one could access the interior of the school, all the children were sent home. The directors contacted their hierarchy. Dominique Boyer, the inspector of the 1st degree came on the spot. Michel Sanz, IA-DAASEN warned the prefect who asked the Collectivity to intervene. The agents of the technical service being on strike, it was finally the gendarmes who came to cut the brand new chains on all the portals of the two schools, at the request of Médhi Boucard, director of education at the COM. At around 9:30 am, the two schools were reopened, but all the students and teachers had returned home. Classes are scheduled to resume tomorrow. At least if other padlocks are not placed overnight. Last Thursday, padlocks blocked access to the Siméonne Trott school in Concordia. Again no banners or demonstrators on site to claim this blockage. The school had been closed for two days in a row, also because more than half of the teachers were on strike.
Since last Wednesday, COM and CTOS agents have been on strike. So authorities and national education assume that they are the ones who put the padlocks. However, there is no material evidence to support this. Contacted this morning, Nicole Javois, secretary of the UTC-UGTG section of Saint-Martin, at the origin of the strike movement at the COM and the CTOS, does not however claim this action in the schools. "I don't know," she says. So the mystery still hangs.
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