The Minister of National Education Pap Ndiaye and the president of the Ile-de-France region Valérie Pécresse went to a high school in Seine-Saint-Denis on Tuesday where teachers had alerted to the cold in the premises. Down temperatures and the outbreak of the price of energy will fear a freezing winter in the classes.
by Sylvie Lecherbonnier and Violaine Morin
In a weekend, the photos toured social networks, before being taken up on Monday, December 12, on television: the teachers of the Voillaume high school in Aulnay-sous-Bois (Seine-Saint- Denis) put online, at the end of last week, images of their students wrapped in their jackets in a room plunged into the dark, under the combined effect of a power cut and a faulty heating.
In other photos, you can see disjoint windows, traces of leaks, sanitary facilities without doors. Monday evening, the Minister of Education Pap Ndiaye invited the president of the Ile-de-France region, in charge of the maintenance of high schools, to accompany her in this establishment of 1,200 students the next day. On the spot Tuesday, morning December 13, he declared that he wanted to “realize the situation concretely”, after being “alerted by the press”.
While recalling that he was not in charge of the “building”, Pap Ndiaye called for emergency repairs “so that this famous building A can accommodate students and staff in good conditions, Pending a long -term renovation, which will take more time “.
a situation that has become extreme
The President of the Region, Valérie Pécresse, recalled that she had invested “six billion euros” in the Ile -de -France high schools, including more than 50 million in Lycée Voillaume – another part was redone – before castigating The previous mandate, “the left”, which “left him two hundred dilapidated high schools”.
The regional president has confirmed emergency work during the Christmas holidays for insulation and sanitary facilities, ensuring that heating had been repaired immediately after the alert was given. Building A of Voillaume high school, she says, was well planned in the renovation plan, but it had to start in 2024. “I would have liked that I was held up directly rather than going through the media “Added Valérie Pécresse.
The teachers of the Voillaume high school, themselves, assure that they have alerted many times to a situation that has become extreme in recent days, but which has been running for a long time. “I do in a coat in the gymnasium and the worst, it is that we get used to it. These problems are not new, confirms Benoît Tosin, teacher of disillusioned EPS. We talk about it with each board of directors. We have sent many letters. “
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