in Rouen, hundreds of trainee teachers have not received their internship expenses since January
“We wait, we wait and nothing happens“. Alexia, future philosophy teacher, is not losing her temper. She is one of the hundreds of future teachers from Rouen who are waiting for their gratification internship since January.
At a time when President Emmanuel Macron has promised during his campaign to increase the remuneration of teachers with additional missions, here is a story that does a lot of work: these master’s students in “Teaching, Education and de la Formation” (Meef) have still not received the sum of 120 euros for the internship which they must carry out for one day, each week, in a school.
“It gives us an overview of the profession which is not ideal”
Alexiafuture teacher, trainee in a high school in Evreux
Alexia currently spends two mornings a week on an internship at a high school in Evreux, about sixty kilometers from Rouen. In addition to the gratuity, she also did not receive the transportation expenses of sixty euros. This misadventure does not reassure her: “We are in misunderstanding. We decide to engage in a profession that requires a bac +5 and a competition to have employment insurance“, she explains.”In the end, you end up not getting paid for a step.”
Anaïs is studying to become a school teacher. She claims to have received only vague, even contradictory, answers to her questions concerning this late payment. “The sum is not amazing but when you are a student, each piece counts“, advances the student. She must, every Friday, travel 100 kilometers to get to her internship establishment. “With the rise in gas prices, that matters a lot.”
The rectorate of Normandy says that the files of the 900 master’s students are being processed. There are also more than 700 to be regularized. According to him, it was the new implementation of this stage allowance that posed a problem. According to the teachers’ union Snes, these late payments also took place in other academies, in particular in Lille, Toulouse, Nice or Lyon.