(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #225 - School timetables: Peillon tinker school (fr)

The "refounding School" proclaimed loudly by Vincent Peillon proves a masquerade more. In 
many aspects, continuity with previous policies, All?gre in Chatel, is obvious. Staff of 
National Education will mobilize they provided? ---- One of the greatest 
sleight-of-Password government is to swallow his so-called "priority to education." But 
can we talk about priority when does not even 8000 posts, only 10% of the 80,000 jobs lost 
in five years under the National Education Sarkozy? When one finds ministry is to provide 
a substitute for youth employment with the "jobs of the future teachers," all for 900 
euros a month? When insecure of Education can not see the shadow of a massive tenure 
profile is? And the list could be extended! ---- closures for classes ---- This overhaul, 
cobbled together in a hurry, really hard to convince both the word itself is from the policy.

On school timetables, the hiatus is overwhelming. The children will have to go back to 
school on Wednesday morning, continuing in most municipalities, to stay up to 16 h 30 the 
other day, the lunch break is extended. And this "revolution" was imposed on the grounds 
that children have overloaded weeks? For teachers in any case, the thing is heard: they 
are asked to work one morning back again without lowering their amplitude work elsewhere 
(and of course without upgrading their salaries).

Not to mention that we are very far from a real reflection on school timetables in the 
context of a school emancipatory. In secondary schools, grants are coming cruel: the means 
are not lost back and working conditions, severely degraded, will continue to affect the 
lives of staff and students.

Faced with the nonsense of the government, the largest union of education, FSU plays 
dithering. Should be "constructive", "critical", "offensive"? It depends sectors, trades 
and departments. If the level of the national machinery is the wait dominates in 
vocational schools, trade unions FSU, South CGT called joint strike on January 31.

The ministry has decided to decentralize some of its powers, which threatens many closures 
of classes and sections. On school timetables to Paris, SNUIPP-FSU is a party to the 
Inter-built broad mobilization. Other examples exist, and it is on these mobilizations, 
still sparse, and South-CGT ?duc'action Education and would like to support the struggle 
to engage at the national level.

Exceptional mobilization Paris on 22 January, with 90% of teachers of first-degree strike 
and demonstration in 3000, shows a significant response is possible, leading beyond union 
activists.

Tom Rouergue (AL activist of Education)