More than thirty establishments in Picardy, mainly schools and colleges, recorded Monday a significant rate of absenteeism, parents of students denouncing Bill Blanquer and declining resources.
Many parents of students from Picardy, particularly the Somme, conducted Monday operation "dead settlements" in schools, colleges and high schools, to denounce the bill Blanquer and the "cuts in means" announced for the upcoming autumn .
More than thirty institutions concerned
In more than thirty institutions concerned, mostly schools and colleges, teachers were present, but many parents had "chosen not to take their children in class" in protest, told AFP Ghislaine Lefebvre, representative of the Picardie FCPE. Parents also plan to "occupy" the premises of several institutions in the night from Monday to Tuesday.
In Amiens, the most affected city, 18 of 94 schools recorded Monday absenteeism rates ranging from 22% to 100%, and "five schools were blocked by parents of students," according to the rectorate. In the four schools of Péronne, between 58 and 93% of the pupils were absent.
From the same source, in the second level, 10 of the 50 colleges of the Somme hosted only half of the students or less, with absentee rates exceeding 90% in some colleges of Amiens, Oisemont, Villers-Bocage or Bernaville. Mobilization was "weaker" in the Oise and Aisne, with few schools and colleges affected but absenteeism rates significant.
A reform criticized
The parents of students denounce the bill "for a school of trust", voted in February in the National Assembly. The project provides for the reduction of compulsory education from 6 years to 3 years. In addition, the text introduces the possible grouping of classes from one college and one or more schools into "basic knowledge" institutions, which "will result in job cuts" and "closures of small schools". rural areas, particularly in Aisne ", regretted Ghislaine Lefebvre.
Parents of students also deplore "the reduction of the number of Rased posts" (specialized help networks for students with special needs, made up of teachers and specialized psychologists) in the schools, the "drop in the number of hours of teaching and enrollment "and the increase in the number of pupils per class in colleges" including those classified REP and REP + "(priority education networks). They also regret the reform of the baccalaureate "which is still very vague," said Ghislaine Lefebvre.
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"They will scratch especially on the colleges in REP + in the second department of France with the worst reading difficulties at the entrance to the college.It is not by putting less resources on the colleges in REP + we will reach to solve them, "told AFP the deputy LFI of the Somme, François Ruffin, who met Monday teachers and parents of students of the Somme. "Today, I feel pride because the teachers and parents of students of the Somme act," he added, hoping "a contagion effect on other departments."
The rectorate for its part said that the available resources and the number of college students in the academy was decreasing, the institutions of the academy with 2,442 junior students since 2014.