
Marseille, Tuesday, July 7
It is unacceptable that you are punished by the Minister and the hierarchy of Education so that by your decision intelligent and responsible, you do not want to be complicit in the new form of abuse made by the support time after class, says aid custom, to be dedicated necessarily called fundamental to learning (French, arithmetic, mathematics.)
better than anyone you know in fact that at the end of school time, children in trouble are exhausted, trapped in their fears, failures, obstacles inhibitions and, in their anxiety, their fears ... especially when they are projected through the return home when their family is suffering. Many are already in early afternoon or even for the most fragile, vulnerable and disadvantaged, at the end of the morning as shown by the observation of children attending ZEP schools. Only children who live daily in the emotional security, without gaps and without sleep behavior "disrupted" and / or "disruptive" can be sufficiently vigilant, attentive, responsive and available during the afternoon to capture and process messages from the master, and thus realize their full potential as students. And yet, not every day according to fluctuations in their balance physiological, emotional, emotional, social and cognitive. They all want to change the "planet" to 16.30. The vast majority of ... teachers as well.
Your refusal to shut up after school special needs students in formal learning situations that will aggravate their problems, is a taking responsibility and civic humanist who honors you. It shows the way for children in trouble are not even exhausted, unmotivated ... and finally, over the days, intellectually and psychologically destroyed by the longest day of the world (six hours of time constraints).
"The addition to daily personal assistance to children with learning difficulties further increases the duration of the school day, the longest in the world ... especially for those who are struggling to mobilize their intellectual resources to understand and learn, and also for the teachers themselves. How can we believe that support after the class, albeit customized, can be useful or effective for students including fatigue, lack of vigilance and attention, and no reasons are obvious to 16.00, often early in the afternoon or even late-morning (this is obvious in the schools PTA) when they are "installed" failure in school?
damage in addition to the damage generated by the increased pressure and relationship with the intellectual weight increased daily frequency and duration learning basic expressed, in conjunction arbitrarily reduced by one week to four days (it must be done in four days what was done in four and a half days) and new programs fools. There is more time decompression and respiration during the day while it is essential for all children, especially those in difficulty, can recover at least some of their psychological and mental fatigue, and restore their capacity or less attention, mental concentration and information processing. There is enough time for children to release their emotions, their feelings, capacities and intelligences hidden and the richness of their imagination, yet obvious when engaging in visual arts, choral singing, storytelling, exploring the nature, characteristics of plant and animal life, the compelling story of our ancestors and world, living in different human cultures ... Children also learn French well, or better, during this time of diversification and discovery in formal learning situations and explicit language. Obviously, the teachers know. Professors of the schools are right to propose one or more of these fields of discovery and pleasure during the half-hour of personalized help, while their students are "more intellectually than saturated."
Scandinavians are horrified.
By imposing without consulting the four-day week, increasing the weight delusional "fundamentals" and support for after school child in difficulty the Minister and the hierarchy of Education dehumanize the school, increase inequality and social injustice by leading a growing number of children to encyst in the "disenchantment" for the school and its rejection, and thus more or less gradually into the social marginality. This "system" and absurd "concentration camp" stigmatizes families who combine personal difficulties, moral, familial, social and cultural. It is a disgrace to our country ... In principle, one of the cradles of Human Rights. The foreigners I meet do not understand what "system". It would not have acted differently if we wanted to perpetuate a school with several gears in which the most fragile, vulnerable and needy can not even not pass the first speed, and engage with confidence in the desire to understand and learn because they can trigger the higher speeds that allow access to different levels of knowledge and skills.
No country in the world has established a school day as unfavorable for children in difficulty within a week who is not a Two school days (Monday and Tuesday) one day (out of school Wednesday: can we still justify it through catechesis, scheduled for Thursday, there are thirty years?), two school days (Thursday and Friday), and two days of weekend. In this framework, everyone knows that Monday is a very disturbed and disturbing (many children are sleepy, at least not careful and / or stirred). What an illusion and / or what lack of honesty to think that extra half hour of personalized help after class, especially on Monday, to facilitate mastery of French, numeracy and mathematics learning situation formal. All teachers know it's a mission impossible.
The court must of History will record that the current Minister of Education, his advisers and ideologues disorderly, and his vassal hierarchy established a system of abuse, stigma, guilt and exclusion implied that dishonors our country and our nation.
There has never been more Inspectors removed Academy in 2008-2009, while their "'fault' was to listen and try to understand the decision and confusion for teachers, especially those that are called "désobéisseurs. The information "back ground" all show that there has never been so exhausted and disoriented children, teachers and also exhausted, stressed, demoralized and feel guilty by the continuing failure of the most vulnerable pupils, vulnerable and destitute. The letters they send to their councilors, the mayor often or are often poignant and pathetic. The door is wide open for increased use of sleeping pills, tranquilizers, psychotropic ... children, their parents worried or desperate and their masters ... who lose confidence in their skills. Is it clear that the French are already the largest consumers of these molecules!
By their refusal, "désobéisseurs" safeguard the dignity of the school. Thank you.
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With all my solidarity
Hubert Montagner
Professor in retirement
Former Director of Research at INSERM
Former Director of the Research Unit of INSERM handicapped children
The CIPF Paris presents "Sounds and Fury "with Valerie Pécresse and Xavier Darcos. It the story of a man and a woman, with a mission by the great chief of the tribe, decided by various actions to break the school and university. Nothing stops them, nor the cries of former players MEN, Jacques Lang and François Bayrou, nor protests from parents, students and teachers. Their decision is irreversible, the goal is to deliver quickly, the Preschool at the University, the public education service to the private sphere.
But this is not a film is the sad reality.
reforms pass. The school, from kindergarten to university, and IUFM pass away. Since then, over a year, the mobilizations succeed in various forms, without providing satisfaction, apart from some partial reversals. They call others of greater magnitude , in order to impose the removal of these reforms-cons. Above all, they require highlighted another plan for the future of public schools, another political project for Education, for the future of our children.
Now that we, the school community, together we find to defeat the political establishment. The school is not a business, knowledge is not a commodity . This liberal policy results in immediate and disadvantageous for our children: job cuts, elimination of teaching hours, disappearance of assistance networks, challenged the tongue, crowded curricula and r ythmes school misfits, deletion school mapping, development of competition institutions, undermining the teaching professional with the training of teachers and constant threats. The school is not a burden to be reduced, it is a investment for the future. All children are educable without discrimination or competition and are entitled to a quality school in every neighborhood.