“Shield around the school. » This is the name of the interdepartmental plan, which was presented this Thursday, April 4, at the Place Beauvau in the presence of the ministers of the interior, education, justice, rectors and general prosecutors. In New Aquitaine, following the visit of Nicole Belloubet on Friday March 29 in Bordeaux, in response to the warning messages received by the secondary school in Trégey, this “battle plan” was eagerly awaited.
“Shield around the school. » This is the name of the interdepartmental plan, which was presented this Thursday, April 4, at the Place Beauvau in the presence of the ministers of the interior, education, justice, rectors and general prosecutors. In New Aquitaine, following the visit of Nicole Belloubet on Friday March 29 in Bordeaux, in response to the warning messages received by the secondary school in Trégey, this “battle plan” was eagerly awaited.
“Violence is skyrocketing,” says Carole Zerbib, principal of Vauquelin High School in Paris and elected to the national education management union SNP-DEN UNSA. Serious incidents perpetrated by middle and high school students actually increased from 12.3 incidents per 1,000 students in 2021-2022 to 13.7 in 2022-2023; and incidents of a racist, anti-Semitic or homophobic nature doubled (from 4 to 8% of reported serious incidents).
“Avoid the Bunker”
“Security is an absolute priority, avoiding bunkering,” says Audrey Chanonat, director of Élisée-Mousnier College in Cognac and national secretary of SNPDEN Unsa. “We were waiting for concrete measures,” responds Carole Zerbib. “However, there is no major news, apart from the launch of the national mobile school force, which has already been revealed by the Minister in Bordeaux. » A brigade consisting of 20 members. “And 150 other jobs dedicated to harassment,” adds the union Sud Éducation, regretting that “most notifications are empty administrative tools.”
“The desire to accelerate enterprise security is there, but the money isn’t,” continues Carole Zerbib. In fact, facility work is the responsibility of local authorities, hence the “staggering disparities between departments and communities. For example, Charente has 38 universities. And Charente-Maritime, which has 53, has a budget ten times larger! »
However, there is no shortage of needs. The director mentions this Paris high school in particular, where in the absence of a functional fire safety system and a warning against intrusion, a specific (mandatory) safety plan cannot be applied. At Cognac College, the gate was defective for fifteen years…
“Education Support Network”
SNPDEN Unsa also highlights some progress. Among them “support for employees who are attacked and threatened”. It is clear that the facility will file a complaint on their behalf.
Unanimously, the trade unions expected “resources” on this topic. “To quickly carry out work in buildings”, concludes Carole Zerbib. And above all, human resources: “More supervisors, CPE, more adults for supervision, doing prevention, pedagogy. »
The only “new thing” concerns the creation of an “educational support network”, a unit of teaching assistants to protect several school grounds. A measure that the Sud Éducation union strongly opposes: “These are missions that do not correspond to their legal framework. »