They feel sacrificed. The two REP colleges of Indre-et-Loire are mobilizing against the planned drop in hourly allocations at the start of the next school year. The Arche du Lude in Joué-lès-Tours and Stalingrad in Saint-Pierre-des-Corps are worried about class closures and more staff per classwhile these two establishments are classified as priority education zones.
Five additional students per class in Stalingrad
At Stalingrad College, after a strike on February 22 followed by almost all the staff, around fifteen teachers gathered again in front of the gate on Monday February 28. In this establishment, two classes should be removed, including a 6th grade class. Class sizes are also expected to increase.
“We would go from 23 students per class, to 27/28 students”says Marie-Pierre Kihm, professor of literature. “It’s too much, especially in 6th grade, to make the transition to CM2 in good conditions.” His colleague Mélanie Raymond, professor of SVT, abounds. “We know very well that with five more students, it will be less easy to help them, and that this will result in a lower success rate.”
We are told that our college is similar to a normal college, but we can see that this is false – Marie-Pierre Kihm, professor of literature
– Chloe Martin
Professors claim a success rate of 90% at the college certificate, a sign that what is currently in place is working. “We are even told that our college is similar to a normal college. But we can clearly see that this is false, that even if we have a social mix, some of our students are in great difficulty. by a dropout, low results, tensions in the classes”describes Marie-Pierre Kihm.
The college should lose 50 students at the start of the school year. The teachers know it, at least one class will have to be deleted. But they ask keep this specificity of REP. “We put a lot of things in place, projects, options, and all that takes time and resources. We are aware of it, but we also know, because we are on the ground, that this is what ‘it’s necessary”adds Mélanie Raymond.
At the Arche du Lude, the risk of losing split hours
Same observation at the college L’Arche du Lude, in Joué-lès-Tours. The teachers meet this Tuesday, March 1 to define the form of their mobilization. At the start of the school year, the college should go from 226 to 200 students, which justifies for the Academic Inspectorate, the abolition of a class and an increase in the number of staff in the others.
“We are asked to choose between duplicating certain hours of French, mathematics or science, and optional hours. Which we refuse. We cannot choose between helping the students most in difficulty and offering an ambitious school “, says Alice Le Hen, professor of history and geography. The teacher also advances the specificities of pupils in REP, often in split classes in primary school. “It’s not for nothing. These are students who need to have support and individualization of learning. They have also been much more impacted by confinements and school at home”.
The hourly allocations definitively stopped in June
The Academic Department assures that the number of staff and hourly allocations for the start of the 2022 academic year will be definitively adjusted in June. Until then, discussions continue with teachers, parents of students and municipalities. Representatives of several establishments are meeting in front of Dasen’s headquarters on March 9.