After the January 13 mobilization day and a three-hour meeting with the trade union organizations, the Minister of National Education announced additional means to manage the crisis and the maintenance of more regular consultations.
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This is a real change in tone and method that the government has operated with the concertation organized urgently after the mobilization of national education staff, Thursday, January 13. She has brought together trade union organizations for more than three hours, Prime Minister Jean Castex, and Ministers of National Education and Health, Jean-Michel Blanquer and Olivier Véran (videoconferencing for CVIV-19). “It has been a moment of good discussions to move on concrete points,” said Jean-Michel blanquered at his end. “It’s important to come back to a climate of trust,” he added.
In the face of anger and feeling of being despised – even abandoned – expressed by personnel faced with the incessant changes of health protocols, this time of exchange, driven by the Prime Minister, marks a turning point. The Minister of National Education also wants to continue the discussions regularly. From now on, meetings will be held every fortnight with trade union organizations and ministries of national education, and health and solidarity. “We need to explain the scope of constraints in which we work to share information, which will help to understand why sometimes decisions must undergo very fast adaptations,” said Jean-Michel Blanquer, who announced a series of measures .
On the sanitary component, 70 million surgical masks are being transported for staff and 5 million FFP2 masks will be made available to kindergarten teachers. About CO 2 CO sensors, the € 20 million Fund of Assistance to local authorities has not yet been “fully used but will be abundant if necessary,” says Matignon.
Vigilant unions
“It is true that COVID creates absences and you have to provide for these replacements,” also recognized the Minister of National Education. Some 3,300 contracts will be recruited soon. They are among the 6,000 replacement positions already announced but will be the subject of longer contracts, six months. In addition, 1,500 education assistants need to strengthen school life teams and 1,500 additional administrative vacators will support school principals and heads of school.
On the pedagogical pane, CP’s mid-year assessments, which were scheduled to begin on January 17, are reported “to a time limit to define”. The possible postponement of the specialty teaching tests of the Bac, which must take place in March with the reform in force, will also be the subject of reflections and consultations. Between the absences of students and those of teachers, the already charged program is extremely difficult to hold, according to the teachers.
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