Ces EVS ont été embauchés en 2006 pour faire de l'encadrement, via notamment les contrats aidés mis en œuvre par Jean-Louis Borloo, alors ministre de la cohésion sociale, et destinés aux allocataires du RMI et aux chômeurs en fin de droits percevant l'allocation spécifique de solidarité.
What an idea! You take the long-term unemployed, about to run out of benefits, and save them from destitution by putting them into the schools for the purpose of encadrement (a word lovely for its ambiguity as well as for its faint reek of the military). Well, that's one way to get the unemployment numbers down (and to hide the social cost of unemployment in the budget of l'Education nationale), but it isn't likely to have produced much bang for the buck in educating the children or preparing the formerly unemployed for reinsertion into the work force in a real as opposed to a make-work position. No wonder the suddenly dismissed feel betrayed. No wonder the ministry of education was eager to rid itself of this burden. No wonder people feel cynical about politics.
Le dégraissage du mammouth ain't pretty.
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The U.K.managed to massage its unemployment figures for years by putting perfectly fit people on invalidity benefit.....
You seem more than cynical here: these employees are the people who - albeit untrained - were given the job of helping disabled children who'd just and barely been accepted into French schools. One can wish they'd been trained, but their job was in no way to educate anyone, rather to ensure that disabled children weren't just set on a chair at the back of the class and told to shut up. They wheeled or lifted kids in wheelchairs, provided mediation for kids with severe behavioral problems, ensured integration for autistic and mentally disabled kids, etc. A kid was allowed to take his bac last week because of the EVS: he has no hands and the EVS typed what he told her to. In many cases they also helped school directors, who in most cases have to teach full time (at best, they get one day off to manage their school) by performing secretarial duties.
It's especially horrible for kids with emotional disabilities, who will lose their sole "relay" to the school and who are likely to be thrown into bouts of regression because of it.
More info here:
http://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/300609/l-elysee-fait-la-sourde-oreille-face-aux-30000-emplois-vie-scolaire
I think Liberation and Rue89 also had something on the topic.
MYOS, Perhaps I was too cynical, but a glance at the ministry's Web site:
http://media.education.gouv.fr/file/44/7/1447.pdf
suggests that EVS were used for many functions other than helping the handicapped, such as administrative assistance, reception, school outings, etc.
You're right in that there are no staff members in French schools so the EVS became that, too. I would not care as much -even though having school assistants for menial duties seems like a more efficient way to run a school - but it does scandalize me with regards to disabled kids who are already shortchanged in the current system.
http://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/160609/enfants-handicapes-une-scolarisation-au-rabais
More info on the subject on a RMC blog I just found:
http://www.rmc.fr/blogs/lesgrandesgueules.php?post/2009/06/23/Une-de-trouvee-dix-de-perdues
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