teachers expect a strong gesture
Pap N’Diaye has chosen Haute-Garonne to return to school in 2022. The brand new Minister of National Education is traveling this Thursday and Friday, September 2. A visit which takes place in a difficult context with a shortage of teachers.
The Minister of National Education is visiting Haute-Garonne for two days. Pap N’Diaye will visit several schools in the department, in a difficult context. The unions, worried about the lack of recruitment, expect a strong gesture from the minister.
520,337 students are returning to school this week in the Toulouse academy. This is 2,487 students less than at the start of the 2021 school year. Numbers down mainly in the first degree. Facing them more than 33,000 teachers. There are holders: 14,283 in primary and 17,731 in secondary. To which must be added the 1,190 contract workers recruited this year. Figures that hide results.
“In the second degree, almost all of the establishments are in difficulty in this new school year, explains Pierre Priouret, secretary general of the SNES-FSU in the Toulouse academy. This ranges from a few uninsured hours to 4 missing teachers for the only college of Saint-Céré in the Lot. There are extremely few establishments where the loop is complete.”
Because the problem of this new school year is the shortage of teachers. Guest of the France 3 Occitanie newspaper this Wednesday, August 31, the rector, Mostafa Fourar, said that “everything is settled in the first degree but that there are still some 170 contracts to be hired in the second degree. Figures refuted by the unions.
“To return to normal, it would take much more than the 200 secondary school posts announced by the rector, specifies Eric Priouret of the SNES-FSU. Today, this shortage is made up for by increasing overtime for incumbents. But, in reality, there is a lack of between half and 1 post on average per establishment. and it has worsened since the start of the 2021 school year.
For Marie Gascard from Snuipp-FSU31“we cannot say that everything is settled in the first degree. There is certainly a teacher in front of each class for the start of the school year, but some will disappear on Monday replaced by contract workers”.
In the department of Haute-Garonne, contract workers have tripled in one year and the ministry is planning new recruitments in September.
The visit of Minister Pap N’Diaye is therefore eagerly awaited for this start of the 2022 school year, when the teaching profession is no longer popular.
Worried about the emissions which are multiplying and the working conditions which are deteriorating, the teachers are waiting for a strong gesture from the minister. “We have reached the red flag in many areas: wages, working conditions, public service support, believes Pierre Priouret. We expect a lot to rebuild a school system worthy of the name. But we fear that the political signal given by the President of the Republic is unfortunately not going in the right direction.
We must stop devaluing the teaching profession, Marie Gascard gets annoyed. The recruitment crisis is largely due to this. We lived through 5 years of crisis with the previous minister. We do not want this liberal school that is being built for us. The teachers are demotivated. So we will finally have to know how to trust our profession.
The unions of teachers of the 1st and second degree intend to meet Minister Pap N’Diaye during his visit to Haute-Garonne to present their demands.
It is a real emergency plan for National Education that they hope to see put in place. Additional resources, training worthy of the name, recognition of the status of AESH (help for children with disabilities), splitting of classes but not with constant numbers as is the case today: as many issues that the unions will try to raise with the Minister of National Education.
Pap N’Diaye inaugurates, this Thursday, September 1, a school group in Toulouse. He goes Friday to four elementary schools, a college, as well as to the hotel school to talk about diversity, inclusive school and sustainable development.