At the beginning of June, the staff of the Soualiga college sent an eight-page letter to the representatives of Education as well as to the prefect and the president of the COM of Saint-Martin to express their concern about the return to school in September 2019.
"We are seeing an increase in sick leave and long sick leave as well as an explosion in transfer requests," reported the staff. "Almost half of the teachers requested a transfer this year while the teaching team has always been very stable for years," he noted.
Indeed, this year there has been a very marked increase in the number of transfer requests from secondary school teachers in Saint Martin. For the start of the 2019 school year, 86 of them have requested it, i.e. 32% of the total workforce. 50 of them obtained it, which corresponds to 18% of the total workforce. This means that almost one in five secondary school teachers leaves the island this summer.
By way of comparison, for the start of the 2018 school year, they were only 17,6% of the total workforce of the second degree to have requested their transfer, and 10% to have obtained it, against 11,2% transferred to the September 2017 (for 19,5% of requests).
The delay in the delivery of the mobile classes which crystallized the global contestation of Parents, Pupils and Professors of the 1st and 2nd degree certainly played in the balance, the requests for transfer taking place around the months of November and December.
(More details on www.soualigapost.com)
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