“A bandage on a wooden leg”, denounces the SNUipp-FSU

“It’s a bandage on a wooden leg“, denounced Thursday on franceinfo Guislaine David, spokesperson and co-secretary general of the SNUipp-FSU, after the promise of Emmanuel Macron to establish a disability referent teacher in each school. expressed at the 6th National Disability Conference on Wednesday, committing to “a truly new public service” for inclusion.

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“When you are in a difficult situation in a class with a pupil with a disability, when things go wrong, you are alone in the face of the situation in the class“, explains Guislaine David. “If the referent colleague is also facing his class, he will not be able to helpto the struggling teacher. To remedy this, we mustteachers who are trained and discharged from class“, estimates the representative of the SNUipp-FSU.

“It will take resources”

This referent must be able to “train teachers, but also intervene at certain times” taking “students with disabilities and help in the classroom“. This “announcement effect“, which comes a few days after the “pact“proposed by the government to teachers for salary increases,”is not going to address issues of inclusion “at school” and the difficulties that colleagues are havingt”, believes the trade unionist.

Guislaine David wants “believe” At “real new public service” for the inclusion praised by Emmanuel Macron, but “resources will be needed“.”From the beginning, inclusion at school was implemented without means. “We did quantity and we didn’t do quality“, alerts the spokesperson of the SNUipp-FSU. “The students welcomed are suffering, because they are in classes loaded with staff who are not trained. Sometimes it explodes, which hurts the student who is in a situation of inclusion, the rest of the class and the teacher who does not know how to cope.”

A disability referent “in each establishment and each district of the first degree“as promised by the Head of State”will not be enough“, insists Guislaine David. According to her, it is also necessary “school psychologists, specialized teachers, nurses, a whole team that makes it possible to deal with inclusion. This is not what the president promises in the classes at the start of the school year in September“.