A-Infos (en) France, UCL AL #346 - Closures in National Education: More Jacques Decour, less Stanislas (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

For several days, the new Minister of National Education has been 
declaiming contempt for public education and the equality typical of her 
class. Meanwhile at the Decour school campus, in the 9th arrondissement 
of Paris, staff are mobilizing in response to the proposed partial 
closure of the establishment. ---- Last December the news came out of 
nowhere: under the pretext of work awaited, some for 20 years, part of 
the classes of the Jacques Decour school campus[1](which brings together 
students from middle school to high school and in scientific preparatory 
classes) will close at the next school year, and the entire college in 
2025. With no guarantee of reopening from the rectorate.

What happens to the students? The teachers and the teaching team? No 
answers, or almost. The students will be "offloaded" to other 
establishments, the teachers will have additional points to leave... 
This is already very insufficient but for both, the question is: to go 
where? In a Paris academy where class closures are plentiful (40 6th 
grade classes, 125 primary classes in 2023)? This makes the situation of 
everyone in the establishment uncertain. And the consequences for both 
the families and the educational team are difficult: loss of 
connections, risk of finding themselves dispersed throughout the city, 
obligations to occupy more flexible and more precarious positions...

Above all, it is the purpose of the work that raises the question: once 
emptied of its students, will the school campus be reopened? Or does the 
work undertaken serve to once again tip a public asset towards a 
lucrative sale? Closing classes in this context, is this not also a way 
of pushing the most advantaged families towards private education?

Occupation of premises and attempted blockade
So, the educational team mobilized. With the support of parents, around 
thirty teachers launched two days of strike on January 16 and 17, with 
occupation of the school gymnasium the night of January 16 to 17. In 
support of the mobilization, on the morning of the 16th, the high school 
students blocked the entrance to the establishment but were chased away 
by the police at the request of the principal. A gathering of parents 
and teachers was also organized in front of the offices of the rectorate 
of the Paris Academy. An online petition has been launched.

The immediate demands are clear: no closure of classes for 2024, no work 
without a timetable in consultation with teachers and parents, 
maintenance of the educational and pedagogical structure of the college. 
For the moment, the Rectorate is sticking to its position. On the side 
of the mobilized team, we are counting on the strike of February 1 to 
make our voice heard, and at the same time defend free, quality public 
education, far from financial interests!

Hugues (UCL Fougères) in connection with the fighting staff

To validate

[1]Jacques Decour is the pseudonym of Daniel Decourdemanche, German 
teacher, writer and communist resistance fighter. Arrested by the French 
police on February 17, 1942, he was handed over to the German 
authorities. Tried and sentenced to death by a German military tribunal, 
he was shot on May 30, 1942 at Fort Mont-Valérien in Suresnes.

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Fermetures-dans-l-Education-Nationale-Plus-de-Jacques-Decour-moins-de-Stanislas
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