The parents of students estimate that 60 hours of French lessons have not been provided since the end of 2022 in the Vinci high school in Amboise. They therefore decided to put the rectorate on notice.
Faced with the absence, since the end of 2022, of a teacher, around fifteen parents from the Lycée Vinci in Amboise have decided to put the rectorate on notice and to request 16,500 euros from the State, reports France Bleu Touraine on Tuesday May 2. . In this establishment in Indre-et-Loire, 70 second-year students have no longer had a French teacher since the end of 2022, which represents 60 hours of uninsured lessons.
Faced with this situation, these parents have been asking for a replacement for their children for several months. And they have now decided to carry out their threats by giving notice to the rectorate. If the latter does not accede to their requests within two months, the parents assure that they will go to the administrative court to obtain satisfaction.
Parents of students denounce “an endemic situation”
The fifteen or so parents are claiming compensation of around 16,500 euros, ie 10 euros per hour of lessons not received per student and compensation of 500 euros per family. A sum deemed symbolic by Sébastien Boishult, one of his committed parents. “If we were to add up what a private lesson would cost for each of the students, we are very, very far from the mark for such a large hourly volume”supports this father with France Bleu Touraine.
Through this action, these parents wish “denouncing a situation that is proving to be endemic”. “The pool of substitutes has been decimated, the difficulties of recruiting teachers are chronic, the attractiveness of the profession itself is at half mast”, laments Sébastien Boishult. He mentions another similar situation within the same high school, namely the absence of a management teacher since the beginning of January. He estimates at 70 hours the number of uninsured course hours for the professor’s two first technology classes.
Me Joyce Pitcher gathers all the complaints of the parents of the school to then make a collective action. “The objective of this action is to react, not to fire red balls at the state”judges the lawyer who wants a solution to be found “so that students learn in the classroom and can benefit from serious teaching”.
“The right to education is a constitutional right.”
Ms. Joyce Pitcherat France Bleu Touraine
Me Joyce Pitcher indicates that this problem of non-replaced absence “has arisen for several years”, and not only in the high school of Amboise. Nearly 200 files of this kind have already been sent to his office, of which 125 are before the administrative court for claims for compensation.