Faced with the lack of substitute teachers, the students’ parents sue the state

This is the second time the state has sued the parents of students. On Monday, May 22, the group of parents of students “OnVeutDesProfs” launched a legal action against the state, faced with the failure to replace absent teachers in schools.

As early as 2022, parents of school, college or high school students collectively sued the state. They demanded compensation for the failure to replace the absent teachers.

15 million missing class hours per year

For this new legal action, the collective denounces teacher absences causing the loss of 15 million teaching hours per year, according to the Ministry of Education. The “OnVeutDesProfs” collective encourages all parents whose children have missed more than fifteen days of lessons due to an unreplaced absence to report themselves on their platform.

But he also asks for compensation. He asks the state 10 euros per hour of lessons not replaced for middle and high schools and 50 euros per day for primary schools. Added to this 500 euros for moral damage and reimbursement of any expensessuch as the use of private lessons to make up for pupils’ delays.

The procedure, launched the week of May 15, has already collected more than a hundred fileswhich were filed with Joyce Pitcher, the collective’s attorney. “Some parents call us in tears because their children have not had a teacher for more than eight weeks »she said Blue France.

1,500 files sent in 2022

To help parents put their files together, the collective is launching the #OnVeutDesProfs meetings, which will take place every Saturday in June and throughout France. Applications will not be submitted until the end of June.

For the 2022 procedure, 1,500 files have been sent. Of those, 127 resulted in claims related to unreplaced class hours, the NIHA reported.French media agency Joyce Pitcher, lawyer specializing in mass litigation, in charge of representing the collective. These claims are still being investigated.

For its part, the Ministry of Education promises to make up for all absences from the start of next school year thanks to a new “pact”, encouraging teachers to replace their colleagues in the event of short absences, in exchange for a bonus that can reach up to 500 euros net per month.

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