As expected, students, parents and teachers gathered on Monday September 10 at 7 a.m. in front of the Hôtel de la Collectivité. They protest against the conditions of reception of the pupils following the delays in the works programmed this summer by the COM. While a delegation of eight people (three teachers, three parents and two students), was received by elected officials of the COM, the students, in uniform and carrying signs, and some parents, were organized in procession to take a tour of the Hôtel de la Collectivité. About fifty parents, students and teachers were also posted around the COM.
“My son is in 5th grade at Mont des Accords where two buildings are out of order. The college was already overcrowded before but there they only have about fifteen rooms in which the windows are blocked and the fans broken, ”explains Ingrid, a parent.
“My daughter is in the 3rd grade in the school complex where they would need 25 classrooms, but they only have 17. So she has classes on Wednesday afternoons. There are also bus and canteen problems and none of them has textbooks, ”continues the one who also has two children attending primary school at Marie-Amélie Leydet school. “The school was able to reopen quickly but is undergoing budget cuts. Friday we received a note asking us to contribute to the purchase of sheets and small supplies. As parents, we are willing to help, but we must not take ourselves for wild ducks either. It is nonsense!" she reports, outraged. Cécile Lucidarme, representative of the UPESM (association of parents of pupils) explains that there are also "big problems" compared to the buses and in particular the line from Orleans to Cul de Sac - Robert Weinum: "we can't even enroll children anymore. ”
“We tinkered last year. We took a lot on us. And there we start again on the same conditions as last year.
At the school complex we do not have a permanent contract (whereas we have pupils who need it, in particular to prepare VSEs), nor a permanence room. There are still wires hanging in the rooms. However, these are not very long things to do. Even the small jobs were not carried out. And we know that these are not the companies that were on vacation this summer. There was a lack of follow-up. We are almost to consider that the COM lied to us. We are waiting for the work to accelerate. And the presence of students and teachers slows them down. You can't run in the noise either. We must postpone the start of the school year as it had been done after Luis, ”says Laurent Bayly, history professor at Robert Weinum high school and territorial secretary for the second degree of the SNES-FSU union.
Around ten o'clock, the procession headed for the national education service to request the postponement of the start of the school year. The UPESM presented to the authorities its "inventory of fixtures and various difficulties of the establishments of Saint-Martin" The association of the parents of pupils has thus listed on fifteen pages, supporting photos, the black spots of this re-entry to Mont des Accords, at the city school, at the LPO, at the college in Quartier d'Orléans, at the schools of Grand Case, Simeonne Trott, Marie-Amélie Leydet and Omer Arrondell. … ”This document is incomplete, it lacks establishments nevertheless concerned.
We are awaiting feedback from them in order to complete this document ”indicates the UPESM. Michel Sanz, IA-DAASEN, which received the same delegation as the Collectivity in the service of national education, responded negatively to his request to postpone the start of the school year for a few days while doing the small jobs. “Postpone the start of the school year in which establishments? We cannot decide to unilaterally close all the establishments because there are some where there is no problem. Closing two days wouldn't change a thing. The work is in progress and we will not be able to make it go any faster. ”He considers. However, he declares to have taken into account the lists of grievances of the collective and ensures that Christian Climent-Pons, project director, in charge of the reconstruction of the education system of Saint-Martin, will verify each point raised and see with the COM how to speed up. things. He proposes, in the meantime, to arrange the timetables of the pupils in the classes where there are problems "with a lot of flexibility so as not that the children are penalized".
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