In some establishments in Perpignan, Grenoble, Aubusson, Colombes or even Gennevilliers, the arrival of new global hourly allocations (DHG) is far from making people happy.

It turns out that this envelope of hours allocated to each college by the academic management, in order to ensure all lessons (compulsory and optional) over the week has dropped in certain places.

Parents of students and secondary school teachers do not intend to stop there and are mobilizing to demand better allocations of teaching hours, and therefore of teaching positions, for their establishments at the start of the next school year.

“We are being withdrawn from the means for the next school year, with job cuts that hurt”, regrets Sophie Vénétitay, general secretary of Snes-FSU, the first secondary school union which reports around fifty establishments on strike or in demonstration for obtain additional resources.

According to her, "the drop in hourly allocations means that in the field, we will have class cuts, higher numbers per class, the abandonment of half-group work when students need more than ever to be supervised after two years of health crisis, which has caused delays for some”.

95 less hours of weekly lessons in Gennevilliers

Questioned on Tuesday at the National Assembly, Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer affirmed that "there have never been so many budget increases for National Education as under this five-year term, much more than in the previous five-year term and still more than in the previous five-year term".

The ministry relies on demographic data (-6,000 students in secondary education) to explain the elimination of more than 400 teaching posts next year in middle and high school.

At the same time, secondary education will see the creation of 300 posts for principal education advisers, 50 posts for nurses and social workers and 60 posts for inspectors.

However, in Gennevilliers in the Paris suburbs, “for the fourth consecutive year, the Guy Môquet college, REP +, is very severely affected and loses hours: 32 at the start of the 2022 school year, 20 in 2021, 33 in 2020, 11 in 2019. A total of 95 hours of lessons per week has therefore been eliminated while the numbers have continued to increase, ”deplores Guillaume Auzou, PE teacher in this establishment.

“Our students, after two years of schooling under Covid, would rather have needed less busy classes and more hours in half-groups”, he recommends.

"It's the equivalent of a college that has disappeared"

In Colombes near Paris, the representatives of the parents of the Marguerite Duras college are also mobilized to avoid having classes with 27-28 students at the start of the school year against 22 today.

"This would quite simply mean the end of the priority education policy on a disadvantaged college in our territory", remind the parents of FCPE students in a letter addressed to the mayor of the city.

They highlight “the level of the students, particularly low, following the various confinements linked to the Covid”.

The FCPE assures in a press release that “from Dunkirk to Montfort-sur-Risle, from Saint-Pierre-lès-Elbeuf to Figeac, anger is brewing among parents”.

In question, according to her, "a DHG 2022 below all the expectations and needs of the students".

For the deputy LFI François Ruffin, “in a mandate from Macron”, in the Somme – his department –, “it is the equivalent of a college which has disappeared.

In France, there are 175 colleges – nearly 8,000 teachers”.

Tuesday in the National Assembly, the PCF deputy for Hauts-de-Seine Elsa Faucillon questioned Jean-Michel Blanquer on this drop in endowments "experienced as abandonment and additional contempt, a fortiori after two years of crisis".

“These additional resources for those who have less are not a privilege or a whim, they are decisive for the future of our children,” she said.

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