This Saturday, September 30, the parents' associations of Soualiga College organized an emergency meeting concerning the precarious situation of the building, the lack of classes and the work which is slow to come to fruition.
As a reminder, the start of the Soualiga college had already been postponed following the withdrawal of teachers, who did not feel safe in the six modular rooms installed post-Irma. On June 15, SE-Unsa and SNES FSU Saint-Martin indicated in a press release worrying noises and apparent cracks which forced students and teachers to leave the rooms. The faculty then informed the vice-rectorate of the alarming situation, an expert commission was to follow, but this was not the case. At the end of September, Dominique Démocrite Louisy, 3rd vice-president of the COM, visited the site, announcing that three rooms on the ground floor were usable, that the balustrade giving access to the upper floor would be consolidated and that the waterproofing of the three upper rooms would be redone. In the meantime, students from Collège Soualiga received alternating lessons, one week on site, one week remotely. Last Saturday, parents of students expressed their exasperation at the new schedules for welcoming students: in the morning for 6th and 5th grades and in the afternoon for 3rd and 4th grades. A schedule that is difficult to manage for parents who work or have children at multiple levels who declare during the meeting: “We are not in phase with that, at all! ". The Community has already set up school transport according to this new organization, which should be effective from Monday October 9. Present during the meeting last Saturday, a member of the Castel et Fromaget company and parent of a student at Soualiga College informed the assembly that an estimate for the repair of the stairs was in the hands of the Community, on stand- by, due to lack of a confirmation stamp.
This urgent repair to access the rooms upstairs should last two weeks. The issue of the tightness of the rooms does not jeopardize their use but it nevertheless appears on the list of requests from parents (as well as the lack of air conditioning, access to water and meals served late) in order to accommodate all students in safe conditions and a normal study context. The parents' associations have therefore decided to issue an ultimatum to the Community and the Education Service: if the work is not completed by the start of the school year on Monday, November 6, after the All Saints' Day holidays, the parents of students will begin a general blockade. _VX
https://faxinfo.fr/en/education-college-soualiga-lultimatum-est-lance/
