While the national education services of Saint-Barthélemy and Saint-Martin are organizing this Friday, November 24, a seminar for school principals and school leaders, the teacher unions alert the government in Saint-Martin poor working conditions in schools after the passage, more than two months ago, of Hurricane Irma. They denounce a lack of material and a bad reception of the students.
"We are not soldiers," said local representatives of the Snalc union (National Union of High Schools and Colleges) in Saint Martin, warning about the working conditions and reception of students, more than two months after the Hurricane Irma.
"The return to school as it was presented does not reflect reality," said Sébastien Fillion, the academic secretary Snalc Guadeloupe, referring to the visit of Prime Minister Édouard Philippe who came on November 6 to attend the start of the school year in Saint-Martin. .
Overcrowding in classes and lack of school supplies
"The Prime Minister visited the only real school that was ready to accommodate students," he said. “In the schools, with the half-days of five hours in a row, the children cannot hold out. At the Quartier d'Orléans college, we have a problem with school supplies. The Soualiga college is transferred to the buildings of the School City. 380 students divided into 12 classes in 9 rooms. 35 students per class. It doesn't fit, ”he continued.
The union also wants to alert about the consequences in terms of organization for parents. "For example for Soualiga college, which welcomes students only in the afternoons and Saturday mornings, this creates a huge problem for parents," says Stéphane Ami, teacher at the Cité Scolaire and assistant academic secretary Snalc.
Unions denounce Minister of Overseas remarks on teachers
Representatives of Snalc also returned to the words of the Minister of Overseas Annick Girardin, who said in particular before the start of the school year, "shocked" by the teachers who left the island after the hurricane.
“We can hear it, but the teachers are locals like the others. We are not soldiers. Some have experienced very difficult conditions. So stigmatizing them and threatening them with sanctions was unwelcome, ”regretted the trade unionists.
"The interministerial delegate appointed for reconstruction Philippe Gustin himself said that 50% of the employees of the prefecture had left the island but we did not hear him say that they were threatened," insisted the two representatives of the Snalc. _AF
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