The 1,700 nursery and primary schools in Seine-et-Marne welcomed 700 more students at the start of the school year than announced by official projections.
Estimates indicated a drop in the number of primary school pupils, reports
Le Parisien
.
But this is not the case, especially because of real estate programs that have attracted residents from other departments.
This gap between predictions and reality has had concrete consequences for schoolchildren and their teachers.
The 136 posts allocated to establishments in Seine-et-Marne to strengthen education in rural areas and split the large nursery sections have proved insufficient.
The situation is all the more tense as not all families have yet enrolled their children in school.
Last minute adjustments
Faced with the lack of dozens of teaching posts, the academy urgently identified the real number of students during the first two days of the start of the school year.
The objective was to close classes on Monday, September 13 and reassign the teachers made available.
Some redeployments even took place on Tuesday.
Schoolchildren have thus made the acquaintance of a teacher finally transferred elsewhere, parents denounce.
They also deplore the overload and sometimes the double levels in the classes that have remained open.
“There are not as many teachers as there are positions, […] which does not bode well for the future,” the Snuipp77 union also affirmed.
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