2023-12-27 01:11:16
The rectoral administration has a very mathematical approach to the management of the Guadeloupe academy, according to the education unions. Thus, taking into account the drop in the number of students expected at the start of the next school year, the elimination of 107 positions has been announced, including 55 in secondary education. This year again, teachers are pleading for quality education, taking into account local specificities, in terms of the standard of living of families, the archipelagic nature of the territory, or even the declining level of schoolchildren, middle and high school students.
Nadine Fadel, with Lydia Quérin and Olivier Duflo • Published on December 26, 2023 at 7:11 p.m., updated on December 26, 2023 at 7:38 p.m.
This is information which, like every year, makes National Education staff cringe: during the next school year, in September 2024, there will be further cuts to teaching positions within the academy.
And, like every year, the rectorate justifies this decision by the drop in student numbers, both in primary and secondary education.
In its press release, the administration is nevertheless delighted to “supervision rates which have evolved positively over ten years”.
While the teaching unions continue to demand more human resources within the Guadeloupe academy, the opposite phenomenon is observed from one year to the next.
The drop in student numbers in the archipelago’s establishments is the recurrent argument of the rectorate, to justify the cuts made to the number of staff.
In a decade, the academic region will have recorded a drop in school enrollment of more than 20,000 students in the public sector, or more than a fifth, with a drop of 25% in primary education and 16.5% in secondary education. .
Press release from the academic region of Guadeloupe
Thus, we are talking about a total of 1,246 fewer students at the start of the 2024 school year, including 502 schoolchildren and 744 middle and high school students.
This number inevitably influences the provision of teaching resources.
This calculation is denounced by the unions, who prefer to talk about the necessary quality of education, rather than exclusively about figures.
We cannot base staffing of positions solely on demographics, when we know that we are in a department with very complicated situations: more than 40% of family units are below the poverty line, 98% of our establishments should have been in priority education, 30% of our young people leave the education system without a diploma (…). On the contrary, we must take advantage of the drop in numbers, to provide elementary schools with split classes in large sections, in Cp and CE1, but also so that classes do not exceed 24 students, particularly in middle school.
Eddy Ségur, general secretary of FSU Guadeloupe
For teacher representatives, it is a question of fighting against the decline in academic standards and against academic failure in the academy.
The National Education Administration Social Committee met on Thursday, December 21, to decide on the resources allocated to public schools at the start of the next school year.
In the 1st degree (nursery and elementary schools), Guadeloupe will lose 52 positions.
In fact, the demographic decline (up to 1.4%) should have led to the elimination of 69 teaching jobs. But, in order to allow work by level group, 17 positions are allocated to the territory.
Taking into account the need for differentiated working groups does not satisfy the FSU; for the union, this measure must be extended to the entire territory.
If we had placed the entire academy in priority education, almost 200 positions would have had to be created, it would have been a long time since we could have split the classes and it would have been a long time since we could have fought against the school failure. We cannot be satisfied with crumbs, in our archipelagic academy, also based in Saint-Martin and Saint-Barthélemy! We should have had a lot more resources!
Eddy Ségur, general secretary of FSU Guadeloupe
In the second degree (middle and high schools), where the loss of students is 1.9%, the archipelago will have to do without 55 postsincluding 5 full-time equivalents in annual overtime (ETP HSA).
This is very bad news! Especially when the Minister of Education Mr. Attal* announces that we will have to carry out a shock of knowledge, to ensure that students are better supervised, isn’t it true that, this year again, we are suffering 107 job cuts, while last year we suffered 131 job cuts. It is the continuation of this bleeding on our territory.
Teddy Tancons, academic secretary of SNCL Guadeloupe
*READ ALSO : In 2024, “a third of the job creations” for teachers in secondary education will be overseas, assures Gabriel Attal – 12/21/2023.
Our academy is always placed in the top three of the best-supervised academies.
Press release from the academic region of Guadeloupe
The SNCL union disagrees on this point.
This is an average that is taken. When we weigh up the crowded classes that we can have in Guadeloupe and the very small numbers that we can find in Les Saintes, La Désirade… obviously, the average says that we have a good staff ratio. But this is not the reality on the ground.
Teddy Tancons, academic secretary of SNCL Guadeloupe
As a reminder, last September, all students in CP, CE1, CM1, 6ᵉ and 4ᵉ took a French and mathematics test to measure their academic level. Young overseas residents, including Guadeloupeans, are lagging considerably behind those in France.
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