MONTREAL, Dec. 2020 / CNW Telbec / – The Centrale des unions du Québec (CSQ) and the Federation of Quebec Education Professionals (FPPE-CSQ) call on the Minister of Education to stop making empty promises and to quickly implement its major project to revise funding models in order to concretely meet the needs of students.
Following a survey it conducted, the FPPE-CSQ noted that 70.5% of professional staff carrying out evaluations and validations of files for students with disabilities or with social maladjustments or learning difficulties (HDAA) have still not seen their administrative tasks lighten, despite the promises to this effect made by Jean-François Roberge. The FPPE-CSQ is disappointed to see the lack of concrete commitment from the Government of Quebec to help the development and success of students in vulnerable situations.
Commitments that haven’t changed anything
However, at the time of the start of the school year, the Minister had recognized that the multiple bureaucratic procedures were wasting a lot of time for professional staff. He then undertook that 560,000 hours of direct services to students would be freed up through the unconditional renewal of the budgets associated with HDAA students.
Jean-François Roberge promised directly to the members of the FPPE-CSQ that, “rather than spending the first weeks of the start of the school year completing administrative procedures”, they could “invest their energies directly with vulnerable students following this bureaucratic reduction. “. It should be noted that how these 560,000 hours were calculated remains a mystery, while an artistic vagueness still reigns as to the nature of the changes made to the processes this year.
Powder in the eyes
This week, during the study of additional credits, Jean-François Roberge affirmed that, for several weeks, bureaucratic relief had been present in schools. But the survey conducted by the FPPE-CSQ among its members from the 69 service centers and school boards confirms that the Minister’s announcements in August 2020 will have been nothing but window dressing.
The president of the FPPE-CSQ, Jacques Landry, explains that, in most circles, we continue to ask professionals to carry out the entire administrative process. “The directions still fear a decrease in funding for EHDAA services determined by the ministry, if all the files are not validated or if a file verification is carried out in two years. This means that the famous relief promised this year has not been reflected – or very little – in the school environment. The minister only succeeded in creating false hopes of adding resources to the students, their parents and all the members of the school teams who work with them, ”laments the union leader.
In the same vein, the president of the CSQ, Sonia Ethier, specifies that there are currently several school service centers where nothing has changed and the same requests are maintained despite the announcements made at the start of the school year. “The Minister of Education continues to say that education is a priority, but now is not the time to pay us in kind words! Education professionals are essential to identify the problems experienced by students, but their expertise must be used more for prevention and direct intervention with them. We are almost halfway through the year and the students are still not supported and the school teams are still waiting to be equipped in their procedures. They deserve better! », Protests Sonia Ethier, president of the CSQ.
Finishing, Jacques Landry and Sonia Ethier plead for a permanent review of the model of organization and financing of services to HDAA students so that we can change the tasks. It is time to consider putting in place a statutory model that emphasizes needs rather than problems, in order to ensure access to a threshold of universal services. The CSQ and the FPPE-CSQ are therefore calling for the rapid establishment of a project to revise funding models in order to really prioritize service to students, beyond paperwork.
CSQ Profile
The CSQ represents more than 200,000 members, of which approximately 125,000 are education personnel. The CSQ has 11 federations which bring together some 240 affiliated unions; There is also the AREQ (CSQ), the Association of retirees from education and other public services in Quebec. The CSQ is also present in the health and social services, early childhood educational services, municipal, recreation, culture, community and communications sectors.
Profile of the FPPE-CSQ
The Federation of Quebec Education Professionals (FPPE-CSQ) represents 19 unions with 10,000 members spread across almost all of Quebec’s French, English, Cree and Kativik school boards. It has among its members different categories of staff in the administrative and educational sectors and in direct services to students (among others, psychologists, psychoeducators and psychoeducators, speech therapists, guidance counselors, remedial teachers, etc.).
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For further information: Sébastien Marcil, Press officer (CSQ), Cell: 438 356-4545; Aline Patcheva, Communications Advisor (FPPE-CSQ), Cell: 514 608-7721
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