Paris (AFP)
The Communist Party candidate for the presidential election Fabien Roussel proposes, in a column published Tuesday in Le Monde, to "extend the time spent by students at school by increasing it to 32 hours per week" and to recruit 90,000 teachers on the five-year term.
In what he calls a “Youth Pact”, he wants to “give new meaning to learning, with better working conditions for all teachers and those who support them.” Let's give them the time to s '' tackle academic difficulties in depth.
Our children need it, "writes the national secretary of the PCF.
For this, the Communist deputy of the North does not want to increase the working time of teachers but "proposes the recruitment of 90,000 teachers during the next five-year term as well as the hiring, training, deprecarisation of accompanying persons of students with disabilities ( AESH), nurses, specialized assistants to guarantee, really, inclusive school for all ", he continues.
He plans to open "new normal schools, accessible from the bac and paid".
The Communist candidate also advocates, like the socialist candidate Anne Hidalgo, "to make young people want to do this great job", to "increase wages".
It also proposes more generally to unfreeze the index point of all civil servants and to increase "wages by 30% in three years".
Such a program "would also put an end to the inequalities linked to work at home", because "with this increase in school time, it is in class that we will learn the lessons, that we will train".
He also intends to "reduce the number of students per class".
"A school teacher, a teacher should not have more than 20 to 25 students in his class, when the average today exceeds, in some academies, the 30 students".
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