“It’s a massive layoff plan”
While the school map will be approved, for the first level, this Friday (Dordogne would lose 28 teaching positions in middle and high schools and 11.5 in schools), the time has come for concern. “This will lead to class closures in urban areas, but also in rural areas,” complains Alain Chabrillangeas for FSU24. The argument of the Périgord demographic decline put forward by the Bordeaux academy is inaudible to those who emphasize that this should on the contrary improve working conditions in overloaded establishments.
“This will lead to class closures in urban, but also rural, areas.â€
For his part, a teacher from the Maine-de-Biran high school in Bergerac wonders about the fate that will be reserved for contract teachers from the next school year. “Where will they be ejected?” Arguing that despite a mobilization that is difficult to organize, it is not impossible to move the lines. “We hope that the strike will spread horizontally,” adds the CGT Education 24, noting certain pressures on staff wishing to go on strike.
This mathematics teacher from the Antoine-de-Saint-Exupery high school is outraged by the number of job cuts announced for the 2026 school year (1,891 in the first level, 1,365 in the second). “It’s a massive layoff plan and there is no adequate reaction. The bleeding will continue over the following years,” he prophesies.
New mobilization expected this Friday
This March 31, several classes were closed throughout the territory while parents, elected officials, citizens and teachers are invited to mobilize this Friday, April 3 at 9:30 a.m., in front of the prefecture, to make their anger heard.
