2024-10-30 08:30:00
The sky falls on their heads, or at least on a piece of false ceiling: this is what happened in the classroom of Françoise Cahen, literature teacher at the Maximilien-Perret high school, in Alfortville (Val-de-France). ), Monday 14 October. It wasn’t the first time: in 2015 a false ceiling had already fallen on a student in the middle of class, without injuring him.
“I never knew the high school was in good condition, there was always a waterproofing problem”says Mrs. Cahen, who has taught there since it opened in 1997. The situation has particularly worsened since 2021: after very violent storms, the false ceiling on the third floor collapsed, letting water seep into several classrooms. Same scenario in January 2024, on the third floor of the high school. “For the first time in my career I exercised the right of withdrawal”says the professor. Eight other colleagues of his, out of the hundred teachers at the high school, did the same. “We have had no salary withdrawals, testifies Morgan Lanoë, professor of literature. Because they clearly saw that there was a danger: our right of withdrawal was justified. »
The issue of the degradation of school buildings is a recurring theme in Ile-de-France, led by Valérie Pécresse (Les Républicains) since 2015. According to an audit of the region, in 2017, 190 dilapidated high schools (41% of stock) it had to undergo renovation. In 2021, the Regional Audit Office said that a comprehensive renovation was planned for only 23% of these very dilapidated high schools, in 2017 and 2027.
Patch work.
Despite the context of budgetary restrictions weighing on communities, James Chéron, vice-president of the region and responsible for high schools, assures that the community’s investment objectives have been re-evaluated and that it will invest 1 billion euros in 2025 for the renovation of factories in the Ile-de-France region.
At the beginning of October, the region launched a public tender for the renovation works of the Maximilien-Perret high school, estimated at 2 million euros, the nature of which it did not specify. “We are fully involved in solving waterproofing problems, assures James Chéron. The Maximilien-Perret high school has already mobilized 7 million euros since 2016 for works to secure the outdoor spaces, the replacement of the fire safety system and the smoke extraction system, the inversion of the monumental staircase and more recently the recovery of the high school coverage. »
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