• Monday morning, parents of students prevented access to college Jean Giono to protest against the lack of means.

  • Teachers spontaneously went on strike after a show of hands to support this movement.

  • An inter-union delegation of teachers and parents of students was received at the end of the morning at the academic inspection which promises an arbitration "around June 18".

The sun was barely showing the end of its rays on Monday that a dozen parents of students were busy in front of the gates of the college Jean Giono, in the 13th arrondissement of Marseille.

Objective: block access to the college for teachers and students in order to be heard by the academic inspectorate to whom they are calling, in particular, the recruitment of a second principal education advisor and three additional education assistants to support the five currently in office.

Around thirty applications received in 48 hours

“The academic inspectorate promised us these recruitments three years ago for the time when the college would exceed 600 students. We are at 620, probably 700 next year, and still nothing, ”says Séverine, a union member at the MPE13 and mother of a daughter currently in 5th grade. To mark the occasion and find a little echo, the mobilized parents of pupils published on their networks the vacancies sought. "We find it so absurd that they are not able to carry out their own mission, that we said to ourselves" do the job for them "," she sums up. Thirty serious applications reached them within 48 hours.

While access to college was effectively locked, the parents of the mobilized students spoke out to explain their gesture.

It was then that the teachers decided, after a vote by show of hands, to go on strike.

"The strike was voted unanimously, with the exception of the contractors who abstained, which is understandable," explains Nadia, a union member at Snes and who has been teaching French for 15 years in this college rebuilt in 2016 and located in priority area.

What was originally intended to be only a delayed entry for students then becomes for them a trivialized day.

Arbitration around June 18

Strikers and parents of students then went to make themselves heard in front of the direction of the departmental services of national education, not far from the Saint-Charles station, where they had already had an interview on June 3. At a moment's notice, an inter-union delegation of teachers and parents of students was again received at the end of the morning at the academic inspection. "An arbitration will be made on this subject around June 18," commented the rectorate. There may be AED recruitments and the provision of a childcare center. But on this kind of college workforce, it's often 1 or 1.5 full-time CPEs, ”he says.

“The tone was not the same as last Thursday, Séverine rejoices.

They told us "we are going to think" and then they say "we are going to act".

But we will remain vigilant.

The parents of the students thus intend to maintain the pressure by continuing their actions until June 18.

"The applications received will be submitted over the next week to the rectorate, with a copy by registered letter to the ministry", explains Séverine who also promises "some surprises", without disrupting the courses which will resume tomorrow.

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