Seven establishments, including six professionals, must close partially or completely at the start of the 2023 school year. The decision must be made public on November 8. In the structures concerned, the mobilization is organized.
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The announcement is not yet official but it is already making a stubble in the Parisian educational community. Seven high schools must partially or fully close their doors in the capital at the start of the 2023 school year, a dozen would be affected by 2024. The general Lycée Georges-Brassens (19 e arrondissement) and six professional high schools are For the time being threatened: Brassaï (15
e ), the Charenton de Théophile-Gautier site (12
) and Charles-de-Gaulle (20
“A close work has been conducted for several months by the services of the region, the rectorate and the city of Paris. There is no reduction in the offer. These are the sites that close, not training “, We want to specify at the Ile-de-France Regional Council, in charge of high schools. The Paris Rectorate does not wish to communicate before the November 8 meeting.
The dilapidation of premises is advanced by the Region, head of the school building, to justify these decisions. The high schools concerned, which have between 100 and 200 students maximum, were able to take place in old primary schools or unatlared premises. “One wonders if this dilapidation has not been organized. It’s been a long time that we ask that work be carried out,” said Delphine Castaing, head of the Snetaa-Fo staff union in Paris. Patrick Bloche, assistant to the mayor of Paris in charge of education, “rejects” the term obsolescence, while half of these buildings were under the responsibility of the city a few years ago: “It is a Political choice that the region must assume. “
some 8,000 vacant places
The drop in the number of high school students in the coming years also weighs in the balance. The region notes 8,000 vacant places in Parisian high schools compared to its maximum reception capacities. Nevertheless, the professional path has 300 students more in second and CAP at the start of the 2022 school year, while the workforce is down in the general and technological tracks.
The news has spread like a trail of powder among the teachers, the parents and the students of the establishments concerned. Many learned it on Tuesday, October 18, during the mobilization day against the reform of vocational high schools, and make the link between the developments wanted by the Head of State to bring these training worlds closer to the world of business and these closings . “How not to see in this massive plan of closings and transfers a concordance with the Macron reform of the professional path, which will delegate a whole part of the public service of vocational education to the employers?”, Ask the teachers of the Charles-de-Gaulle vocational high school, gathered in general assembly Wednesday October 19.
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