TESTIMONIAL EUROPE 1
For the start of 2019, the Minister of Education Jean-Michel Blanquer had announced his new priority: the recruitment of 4,500 school life assistants (AVS), to honor his promise of a more inclusive school. However, some families still do not have access to it, such as the parents of little Augustin, age 9, who is enrolled in an ordinary CE2 class when he suffers from attention disorders, hyperactivity and some form of autism.
"Our file is made since the month of April," impatient Delphine Robert, the mother of Augustin. "Our child is supposed to have 12 hours with an AVS, to be accompanied in the daily in class.We are told that she was recruited in September and now we are waiting for the contract.We do not even know if Augustin will have someone after the holidays of All Saints' Day. " Today, she says she does not know who to contact.
"The first three weeks of school were very complicated"
In February, the deputies unanimously voted for a socialist text, transforming precarious subsidized contracts into permanent contracts for all accompanying students with disabilities. Since September, they must be offered three-year fixed-term contracts renewable once, with a permanent contract, against one-year contracts renewable 6-8 times now. The minister also announced the introduction of a 60-hour annual training for these caregivers.
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"The first three weeks of school were very complicated," says Delphine Robert, who says he is "very angry" against the delays accumulated by the reform. "Augustine was coming home and he was not feeling well, he was even more agitated than usual, and that was a failure right away, and he felt very devalued at the beginning of the school year." said he did not want to go to school because it takes a lot of effort, he hangs on, he does everything he can. "