Build “a large public service of inclusive school”. Since the start of the 2019 school year, Jean-Michel Blanquer has raised the inclusion of students with disabilities to the rank of government priority. An entire chapter of the law of July 26, 2019 for a “school of trust” devoted to inclusion has also established the ambition of the education of these students with special needs.
In practice, however, it would seem that the departmental directorate of National Education prefers an obsolete circular dating from 2015 to the law concerning Ulis (Localized School Inclusion Unit). An interpretation of the hierarchy of standards that the unions of the first degree did not fail to raise during the last technical committee of school map last Friday.
According to the latter, when counting the overall enrollment of schools, which then makes it possible to establish an average of students per class and thus guides the opening or closing of a post, the academic inspectorate would remove from the calculation the pupils integrated into Ulis systems (localized school inclusion unit). Mechanically lowering the school average.
However, the principle of inclusive education as desired by the Minister of National Education is to mix these students as often as possible in so-called normal classes.
“A class of 30 to accommodate autistic students is not feasible”
“They explained to us that they were removing the students from Ulis to count the school’s overall enrollment. They calculate on the contrary of the law, whereas if this one has evolved it is because the National Education realized that what provided for the circular was problematic to take care in benevolence these pupils with needs individuals in classes already at the threshold limit ”, denounces Luc Bénizeau, representative of Snudi-FO 94.
As proof, he cites the example of the Jean-Vilar school of which he is director in Villejuif. Supporting letter from the district inspector: “Without the Ulis students, the school average is 26, against 26.95 if we integrate them. I have the case of CP classes with 28 students, when the CP level students at Ulis are in a so-called normal environment, we go to 30 students, to welcome autistic students that is not easily feasible. “
Les Ulis integrated into school staff according to the law
It is moreover motivated by this guideline that the law for the school of confidence now provides in its article 25 that “the pupils accompanied within the framework of these devices are counted in the school enrollments. “
The provision was recalled in the official journal of the senate by the ministry last December in its response to the written question from Senator LR du Rhône Élisabeth Lamure: “Pupils benefiting from the Ulis system are taken into account in the overall enrollment of schools and schools ”.
