in a letter, parents of students alert Jean-Luc Moudenc
They are determined. Gathered within the “Unanim'” collective, several parents of students from Toulouse sent a letter to the mayor of the city, Jean-Luc Moudenc, to denounce the reform of the staff ratio implemented since the beginning of 2022.
It plans to reduce the number of extracurricular facilitators by the start of the school year in September 2022. Each professional will have 14 children in charge in kindergarten, compared to the first 10, and 18 pupils in elementary school, compared to 14 before the measure. The municipality thus applies the minimum legal supervision threshold.
The collective represents 46 Toulouse schools
Challenged by the repeated strikes and the mobilization of CLAE leaders in the toulouse schools, several parents have therefore decided to set up the collective “Les Parents Unanim’ for quality extracurricular activities in Toulouse” at the end of 2021. The association represents 46 nursery and elementary schools distributed within several school groups. Emmanuel Eddi, member of the Toulouse coordination of the FCPE, is one of the parents of pupils at the initiative of this action.
“We are asking the town hall to backtrack on the reform, it is not the right time. We are emerging from a health crisis, we must provide the means to pick up the students. The town hall must also take its part via the extracurricular in the catch-up of school dropouts”, he insists.
They demand a salary increase
In addition to abandoning the reform, the collective is calling for additional resources “in order to recruit and properly train the facilitators”, as well as a salary increase. “Unanim'” claims to see recruitment difficulties in the animation sector.
No one wants to do it anymore, people are disgusted. They are so badly paid and they have so few prospects for development that they go elsewhere”, deplores Emmanuel Eddi, joined by The Independent Opinion.
According to the student’s parent, this reform aims to cushion the costs generated by the creation of school groups in Toulouse. “We are making animation pay for having had to create new schools, which has led to cost overruns. This is not acceptable.”
That the group of parents of students feared through this reform, it is a degradation of the quality of the CLAE, doomed to become simple “daycare centers” for lack of staff. And the first consequences are already being known according to them: “We, what we see on a daily basis, are workshops canceled for lack of supervisors”, affirms Emmanuel Eddi.
“Accidents will multiply”, according to parents of students in Toulouse
More serious still, the parents of students in Toulouse wishes to warn about the risk to the safety of children. “There have already been somewhat serious cases, children who have left school because there is a lack of supervision and people who are not well trained, who do not know the schools well. Accidents are going to multiply”, warns the instigator of the collective.
It is in this sense that a letter was sent to the town hall on Monday, April 4. Since then, a simple acknowledgment of receipt but no substantive response. Requested by The Independent Opinion, the municipality did not respond. “She hears us but does not listen to us”, says Emmanuel Eddi about the Toulouse elected official in charge of school affairs, Marion Lalane de Laubadère. Despite everything, the collective does not stop there and has already planned “a big action” to be heard.
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