A small mobilization of teachers against the “shock of knowledge” reform, this Tuesday, April 2, in Bordeaux. 200 to 300 people marched from the rectory to the Place de la Victoire at the call of several unions (Snes-FSU, CGT, FO, etc.). The procession imitated groups of levels…
A small mobilization of teachers against the “shock of knowledge” reform, this Tuesday, April 2, in Bordeaux. 200 to 300 people marched from the rectory to the Place de la Victoire at the call of several unions (Snes-FSU, CGT, FO, etc.). The procession mimicked the tier groups at the heart of the government reform, the strong marching quickly at the front, the middle in the middle, the weak lagging at the back of the procession.
Low attendance is not a problem, according to Carla Chaumeil, co-secretary of the Snes-FSU department: “The movement is well watched by colleagues and parent federations, especially FCPE, which supports our mobilizations and dead high school operations. We have been mobilized since December, the movement is long-term. »
“That won’t help the students”
According to the latter, the core of the protest is the level groups: “We want to draw attention to the difficulties that this classification will represent, to the feelings of the students, the impossibility of moving from one group to another, to the students that we will not be able to classify, those who failed the assessment, those who have disorders such as dyscalculia or dyslexia, allophones… We are moving towards a generation of children who do not grow up together. Nothing works with level groups, as many studies in the educational sciences have shown. Heterogeneous groups are a strength for all students, but these groups must be small. The difficulty is in overcrowded classrooms. »
Annabelle, a teacher at a college on the right bank, sees in the clash of knowledge “the same direction from several governments: reducing resources. Level groups do not add anything. The basis is the decline in public services in healthcare, SNCF, and education. We are trying to train workers, not citizens. We see more and more struggling children in our classrooms and less and less resources to take care of them. »