Ile-de-France: 326 mayors demand postponement of the start of the school year after May 11

The elected officials consider the return too hasty while the precise instructions, in particular the health protocol which will have to be implemented, were transmitted in the middle of the weekend of May 1, that they do not yet know on which manpower they will be able to count, that ” these are municipal agents for cleaning, canteens, out-of-school reception, Atsem (assistants to kindergarten teachers) but also teachers in matters of national education.

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“We learn, ten days before the date of reopening of the schools, that it would be up to the mayors to decide on the reopening of the schools, and parents to decide on the return to the path of their children’s classes. That the timetable for the gradual resumption of class levels, initially announced, is no longer valid, as regards the GS, CP and CM2. And that we will not know until May 7, on the eve of a three-day weekend before the start of the new school year, if our departments are officially classified in the red zone. Finally, there are many who do not yet have information on the teachers who would be available for our schools, on the number of animators who may be available for extracurricular activities, or even the number of pupils to welcome. We also receive instructions to give a cultural and civic dimension to the extracurricular. All this cannot be improvised overnight ”, detail the elected officials who also do not see on what legitimate basis they will have to choose the children who go to class or not since the classes can only accommodate 15 students.

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Denouncing a recovery schedule “Forced march”, the mayors request a postponement of the reopening of the schools, a concertation with the Academic Inspections and claim not to place on the mayors the legal, political and moral responsibility for the reopening of the schools, “But to associate them in a consultation with the prefect of the department, who must assume full responsibility for his decision taken on the proposal of the mayor. “ In particular, the city councilors ask the government to “clearly” prioritize the children who “May / shall” go back to school. Local elected officials are also asking for financial means to implement the health protocol.

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Elected signatories by department of Ile-de-France

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Hauts-de-Seine

Seine-Saint-Denis

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Seine et Marne

Yvelines

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Val d’Oise

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