“We are the collective of parents who intervened last year to recover the use of Kindergarten Ghislaine Rogers in Grand-Case. We are speaking this time on behalf of all the schools affected by the lack of canteen and extracurricular activities since January 30, 2019. We are gathered to express our growing discontent.
We, parents, children, national education staff, had the patience to let you manage this problem before the Carnival holidays, but today the situation remains the same. Without a canteen, all parents must find solutions which are often only temporary. Some have left their job or refuse it, or even get laid off after their repeated absences, in order to take care of their children, who are forbidden to stay on the premises of the establishment with a sandwich. Some parents have their children looked after by someone they have to pay for. Others cannot drop their children off at school for lack of an alternative and are forced to bring them to work with them or to drop them off at private schools.
Whatever solution is found, this lack of public service penalizes children at all levels (fatigue, delay in the program) and is expensive for all parents. In the short term, it is whole families who will find themselves in great financial distress. The repercussions of this untenable situation are catastrophic.
On Friday, March 15, Ms. Valérie Damaseau organized a meeting on your premises to present to parents the solutions implemented by the CTOS and the Community. It has been promised to restore childcare during the day break only, with a meal provided by the CTOS, prepared by the Central Kitchen if it was unlocked during the weekend, a snack. The supervision of the students was to be carried out by four associations selected by your services and sufficiently organized to respond to this mission. It is clear that this promise is not kept. Worse, the parents were counting on this announced "return to normal", and found themselves helpless Monday morning when they learned that they had to pick up their children again at 11:30 am.
Now that is enough.
Without any feedback from you or a solution to be provided within three days of the publication of this open letter, we are determined to take the necessary actions to make our voice heard. And well beyond Saint-Martin. ”
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