Toulouse: parents' associations mobilized to say "no to discounted after-school care"

This is a joint action carried out by the parents' associations of schools in the city of Toulouse, mobilized to denounce the drop in the number of supervisors in the leisure centers associated with the school (CLAE) , from January 1, 2022. They are relaunching a petition put online in June.

"To say no to after-school care at a discount and for educational quality in extra-curricular activities", parent-teacher associations are relaunching a petition posted online on June 24 on the FCPE 31 site. In support of staff of CLAE, they want to alert on the very degraded conditions of reception of children and call on all parents of schools "to bombard the town hall with emails". Indeed, from January 1, 2022, the municipality of Toulouse will "copy the extracurricular supervision on the national regulations which provides for a supervisor for 14 children in nursery schools, and a supervisor for 18 children in elementary schools". This is a 2016 decree signed under the presidency of François Hollande and which has already been implemented in the cities of Montpellier, Paris and Grenoble.

The Deputy Mayor in charge of Education, Marion Lalane-de Laubadère, explains that she received nearly 400 emails on Tuesday, October 5. "Emails to which the mayor of Toulouse will respond since he has been seized". But the elected said to be "available as I have always been, to receive the elected parents and to address their problem on their school".

Parents of students up in arms who say "no to extracurricular care at a discount"

"A decision taken on the sly", according to Naïg Menesguen, president of the parents' association of the Falguière school group in Toulouse.

Marion Lalane-de Laubadère explains: "We mentioned in June that we were going to change the level of supervision throughout the school year as recruitments in kindergarten and elementary school progressed. gradual implementation to move towards this supervision rate until the start of the school year in September 2022".

An already tense situation

Parents' associations in Toulouse are against this reform, all the schools will be impacted, specifies Naïg Menesguen: "in kindergarten, it is normally a adult for 8 children. Currently in Falguière, we have one adult for 12 and a half children. With unreplaced absences and the reform of the working hours of specialized territorial agents in nursery schools (Atsem), we have a degraded rate. And the he absence of an Atsem in the morning leads to traffic jams at the entrance to classes, sometimes a 15-minute wait to drop off the children. As soon as there is a small grain of sand in the machine, it is the disaster and the day starts badly for everyone".

The reality, says the Deputy Mayor in charge of Education, "is that we are encountering difficulties recruiting every year. We had recruited 480 animation agents between the end of August and the beginning of September, 70 people have withdrawn. It takes time to turn around. This is a problem encountered by all the major cities of France".

Lack of dialogue with the municipality

"The supervisory staff are not herdsmen. They are professional animators who, in good working conditions, help our children to open up to the world and set up relevant activities", recalls the president of the parents' association of the Falguière school group in Toulouse.

In a letter dated July 12 to the local council of parents of elementary school Falguière, the mayor of Toulouse, Jean-Luc Moudenc, specified:

Excerpt from the letter from the Town Hall of Toulouse addressed to the Local Council of parents of FCPE pupils of the elementary school Falguière

A delegation of parents would like to be received by Jean-Luc Moudenc, the mayor of Toulouse and discuss possible alternatives with him. They hope for a constructive interview: "the idea is not to oppose, but to propose things without having financial cuts. Paying fewer people does not make sense, investing is also training and hiring staff" .

Structuring an animation sector

To deal with recruitment difficulties, the deputy mayor in charge of Education, Marion Lalane-de Laubadère, specifies that she wants to structure an animation sector .

Alert from the Regional Chamber of Accounts

In this same letter, the municipality highlights the recommendation of the Regional Chamber of Accounts which "warned on the need to find a better balance to maintain our ambitious educational policy".

Excerpt from the letter from the Town Hall of Toulouse addressed to the Local Council of parents of FCPE pupils of the elementary school Falguière

Naïg Menesguenreminds the mayor of Toulouse: "The Court of Auditors not only pointed out the cost of education, it also pointed out the town hall's lack of anticipation in relation to the opening of classes given the demographic dynamics in The city".

The Fédération des Conseils de Parents d'Elèves de Haute-Garonne has requested an interview with the municipality in order to open the dialogue on this reform.