Toulouse: already students with disabilities who resume lessons without a specialized accompanying person
In the Toulouse academy, which has 28,000 students from kindergarten to high school with disabilities, nearly 25% plan to return to school, Thursday, September 1, without a specialized guide (AESH). Example at the Sylvian Dauriac elementary school in Toulouse.
Wednesday, August 31, around 2:30 p.m., the Sylvain Dauriac elementary school, located in the Bagatelle district in Toulouse, was still waiting for the assignment of five accompanying persons for students with disabilities (AESH).
Exasperated, the teachers of this school classified as a reinforced priority education network (REP+), which educated nearly 220 students this year, displayed their anger on the walls at the entrance to the establishment. Hoping that in this return to school that the Toulouse academy wishes “exemplary”, they can also “mobilize the parents of students”.
A lack of AESH
Cases like that of the Dauriac school will have to complicate the return to school for the 28,000 students with disabilities from the academy (eight departments), half of them in Haute-Garonne.
It is 5% of the 520,337 students who will gradually resume lessons this week, a percentage which is higher than the national average (3.5%), according to figures from the Toulouse rectorate.
5,000 more “disabled” students in one year
In one year, 5,000 additional children have been notified by the Departmental House for People with Disabilities (PDPH), a mission of the departmental council. But the recruitment of AESH is not keeping pace.
The rector of the Toulouse academy Mostafa Fourar, who has created 350 additional AESH positions, does not seem firmly convinced that everyone will be served. The precarious status of the person who accompanies one or more students with disabilities, more or less severe, does not arouse many vocations (750 euros net salary on average).
Each year, the academic inspection of Haute-Garonne recruits, but there are nearly 300 students, from kindergarten to high school, to follow part of their school year without a guide.
Of the 28,000 students concerned in the academy, “75% have support”, promised the rectorate. What about the others?
The issue of MDPH notifications
In addition to the Sylvain Dauriac school, several Toulouse schools have a similar skill. “There are children who have an MDPH notification at Sylvain Dauriac school, explains Madeleine, a teacher who wants to speak on behalf of her colleagues. Eight students are in an Ulis (localized unit for inclusive education, editor’s note). The teacher of this class is on sick leave. The academic inspection tells us that it will be renewed but we don’t know anything”.
Madeleine calculated the number of hours lost over a year if the number of accompanying persons was incomplete.
“In total, she says, five AESH are missing for this start of the school year, the equivalent of 132 hours of support for students with disabilities and for some, these are severe disabilities, autism, Down’s syndrome, etc For applicants, someone is needed permanently. The lack of AESH is to the detriment of students whose disability is less and who only need six hours of support per week, this goes by the wayside. »
7,727 students in Ulis classes
The Ulis systems, where 7,727 students are educated, have been reinforced with the creation of sixteen new classes in the academy (six in schools, and ten in secondary education), indicates the rectorate. Mostafa Fourar, who wants to move forward on this sensitive subject, wants to surround himself with all the players in inclusive education.
“We want to sensitize in particular the departments whose MDPH give the notifications”, he launched during his back-to-school press briefing, Tuesday, August 30. At the Sylvain Dauriac school, “if the AESH are not named, we don’t know if we will teach”, wonder the teachers.
253,432 students return to school in Haute-Garonne
Back-to-school day today in Haute-Garonne for 253,432 students from kindergarten to high school. This is half of the workforce of the Toulouse academy which has eight departments and which welcomes a total of 520,337 students. In the department, there are 132,722 students, including nearly 35,000 in Toulouse, to return to school. The second level (middle and high schools) has 120,710 students in all of the 190 public and private establishments under contract. In addition, 3,809 students are educated in priority education establishments, where 100% of CP and CE1 students are in split classes. Finally, in terms of inclusive education, the rectorate ensures that “all schools are part of an inclusive center for localized support (Pial) to best support students with disabilities”.