School holidays: new areas next September – Les Echos

School holidays: new areas next September – Les Echos

Minister of Education, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, announced Tuesday morning that it would review the school calendar “in general”. Traditional holiday areas A, B and C will be reviewed

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It soon the end of traditional holiday areas A, B, C. The school calendar will change. The Minister of Education, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, announced on Tuesday morning on France Inter, it would recast the calendar of the school year and redraw vacation areas.

“The fact that we have a territorial reform which halves the number of regions, it will put in the same region of the territories which previously fell within zones different vacation “, she justified, citing the case of Aquitaine, Limousin and Poitou-Charentes. “This means that there is a calendar, in general, the school year is to review, which also incorporate other considerations such as the spring holidays on which the elected representatives of mountain regularly discussed the many constraints schedule, including the activity of ski resorts. “ The new zones are known ” spring “ has promised Najat Vallaud-Belkacem.

Add to that another problem with the school year. It is currently set to August 31 for students and August 28th for teachers. The union of SNALC-FGAF teacher has filed a notice of strike against the fall in August.

Bis repetita

Last year, the government had agreed to postpone the return to school teachers. The starting date of 29 August had caused a lifting of trade union shields. Touching the sacrosanct August had already led the SNALC-FGAF to file a strike notice. “Attacking the month of August, which has always been a month of vacation, we looked really dangerous,” was then entrusted the “echoes” the national secretary for education, Jean-Rémi Girard. The main union of the second degree, SNES-FSU, was stepped into the breach. And it is indeed a tweet from the union which had announced the postponement of the date of re-entry teachers.

To comment on a story that is repeated, the largest union of primary, SNUipp-FSU, spoke last week of “cacophony”. “There can be no question of reliving” the same thing, warned the union. For its part, the SE-UNSA hoped that the changes in the school calendar are conducted “sufficient time for teachers, families and all those affected by the school calendar can take ahead their provisions.”

According to these two unions, the issue will be decided in mid-March by the Higher Education Council. Several options are being considered:

– the first day of class would systematically from 1 September;

– the exit of students would, according SNUipp-FSU, not after the first week of July;

– zoning winter vacation and spring would be reviewed following the new division of regions;

-the bridge Ascension would definitely be included in the calendar to avoid the wide variety of situations the territory;

– the question of the removal of the second day of pre-return of teachers is the study

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