A strong mobilization is announced in the first degree schools this Tuesday, with at least 170 schools which could remain closed.
This Tuesday, February 11, several unions, FSU-SNUIPP Paris, SNUDI-FO, SE-UNSA, SUD Education, CNT-Ste and CGT Educ’Action, call for strike to denounce “the budgetary bleeding” and the abolition of 470 posts teachers, including 110 positions in Paris in the first degree. “With 110 job cuts still for the next school year, almost a quarter of posts of positions at the national level, the ministry wants to make Parisian schools pay a heavy price by the budgetary austerity advocated by the executive,” denounced the ‘inter -union in a press release.
198 Parisian, nursery and primary classes, could be closed in September, as indicated by FSU-SNUIP PARIS, revealing the List of establishments threatened. Only 21 openings for the start of the 2025 school year are planned opposite. The unions also deplore the lack of replacement of teachers, provoking “days and weeks of lost classes for students”, as well as the removal of the discharge of school directors in Paris. The capital benefits, in fact, from a derogatory regime which exempts school directors from more than five classes to give lessons, against 12 classes in the rest of the country.
Gathering and classes closed this Tuesday
Over the past two years, the intersyndicale assures that the city has lost nearly 300 teacher positions and that 350 classes have been closed. The Paris Academy justifies such an approach by the expected demographic decline in the capital, with a fall in the number of students of 3% envisaged for the next school year.
A rally is then scheduled for 9 am on February 11 in front of the Paris rectorate, in the 19th arrondissement, followed at 1 p.m. from a general meeting. The 19th arrondissement is one of those most affected by future class closings with the 18th and 15th. Following this call for mobilization, many classes could remain closed this Tuesday, February 11. “60% of teachers from Parisian schools will be on strike and at least 170 schools will be completely closed,” said FSU-SNUIP PARIS.