It is a small school but it stood out in the procession of demonstrators by the number of teachers, parents and children who were present, this Tuesday, March 31, in Vannes, to denounce the cuts of teaching positions in Morbihan.
At the La Touline school in Arradon, the school map provides for one less teacher at the start of the school year, which will lead the establishment to go from four to three classes. “We will have two classes with three levels and one with four. With an average of 26 students per class. We are far from the 21 advanced by the academy inspector,” notes Sandrine Morice, the director of the school, which is closed due to the strike movement. She is one of the 250 people who demonstrated, at the call of an inter-union organization, from the National Higher Institute of Teaching and Education (Inspé) to the Departmental Directorate of National Education. All in all, a very measured mobilization.
Minus 36 positions in the second level
This movement of discontent concerned both the first level, where there are 17 fewer positions in the department, and the second level, where the balance is even worse, with a loss of 36 teachers at the next school year. “The fact of justifying these deletions by the demographic decline is not understandable. It is with reduced numbers that we get the students to work best,” underlines Fabrice Rabat, from SNES-FSU.
In the procession were two teachers from Elven College, which was hard hit. “We are expected to have two class closures and 63 fewer hours of teaching staff, based on 27 fewer students, at the start of the school year. But we don’t know who these students are!,” denounces Anne Labourdette, French teacher. According to her, of the 29 teachers at her college who were supposed to teach classes this Tuesday, 25 were on strike.
