We’re starting to know the song: with the team Dauchelleit’s never their fault. Also, when on Saturday, with the announcement of the closing provisional of theschool kindergarten Marcel Provost, the mayor LR of Noyon placed the blame neither more nor less on the National Education services, we were inclined to think that there was perhaps a wolf. The Noyonnais were the first, who on social networks expressed their skepticism. A Noyonnais in particular, Ouicem Gadacha, not the least, he who was 3rd deputy in the Dauchelle team before losing his delegations. After having expressed his thoughts on the closure of the school in the Saint-Barthélémy neighborhood on social networks, Ouicem Gadacha, the former “Mr. Neighborhoods” of the mayor, was kind enough to tell us the reasons for his decision. mouth pushed Saturday.
“No city work? That’s the problem!”
In a press release, the city explained on Saturday that it had ordered an intervention by technical services “to vacuum up the vinyl floor glue which was between the tiles and the linoleum floor covering” following the report of humidity problems in the nursery school. The decision of the DSDEN (Directorate of Departmental Services of National Education) came after this inspection. On Saturday, the municipality of Sandrine Dauchelle said it was surprised that “the National Education services had decided, without consultation, that the fact of having raised the floor covering posed a safety problem”. The city also assured that this “verification” had “not resulted in any work”.
“No work? Maybe that’s the problem!”, reacted Ouicem Gadacha this Monday as the kindergarteners returned from the weekend to the neighboring primary school and community center. For the one who is now elected in opposition, “Sandrine Dauchelle has known for a long time that there is work to be done in this school and in certain others”. “So it’s a bit easy to once again place the blame on someone else,” he asserts.
“It was in the program”
The elected official elaborates: “Well before we were elected, while we were in the campaign, we already knew that the two schools in Saint-Barthélémy (the Marcel Provost nursery and primary schools), and the two schools in Saint-Siméon (Alain Fournier and Joseph Pinchon) had problems that needed to be resolved. We met one of the directors of these schools who told us she was counting on us. Sandrine Dauchelle replied that it was our priority, and it was even in her program.
However, according to Ouicem Gadacah, nothing has been done since. “Nothing at all”, annoys the one who says “he knows the file well having attended the school councils as a representative of the majority at the start of the mandate”. “Each time,” he remembers, “they gave us a list of problems, heating, roof leaks: the parents were mad with rage, the teachers impatient, but apart from sending the technical services to scout out and do some patching up , nothing serious has been done.”
“Children sleep on the floor: humidity is dangerous”
In light of these elements, the elected official does not say he is surprised by the decision to close the school until further notice, taken by the DSDEN of Oise. “We’re talking about a nursery school where the children nap on the floor: obviously humidity problems are something dangerous for children, it can lead to a whole bunch of health problems, in some cases. schools, parents are already complaining about it,” he explains.
For Mayor Sandrine Dauchelle, surrounded by problems (economic, political, social, etc.), this closure of a school – something unprecedented in Noyon – is a new blow. Especially since the irony of the situation is that she has never been as virulent against her predecessor Patrick Deguise as when criticizing his – significant – investment to create two new school groups in the city center and in Beauséjour . “I will certainly not be accused of being there to defend Patrick Deguise,” continues Ouicem Gadacha, “but when he still attended these two major schools, and when he did them, he clearly said that he could not take care of all the schools at once, which will have to be invested in the others: it was up to Sandrine Dauchelle to at least take over.”
The furious elected official concludes: “Every time she went to meet teachers or parents, she was lynched, then she replied “we’re going to do it, we’re going to do it”: as a result, we have a closed school.” The elected official finally has a question: “Where has the municipal budget for schools gone? I asked the question in September by mail, I got no answer. He plans to put it back at the next municipal council.
The deputy in charge of schools Vanessa Pont did not respond to our requests
