Mathilde, school teacher in Toulouse, explains why she resigned from National Education
A school teacher with disabled students in an establishment in Haute-Garonne, Mathilde, 31, made the choice to leave National Education after five years of teaching. She talks about the reasons that led her to make this decision.
At the start of the school year, Mathilde (assumed first name) did not find her way back to school. School teacher in ULIS, classes welcoming students with disabilities, then in SEGPA, the 31-year-old young woman resigned five months ago after a burnout and a lot of disappointment. “I entered the National Education system five years ago to have a job with meaning. In the end, I was confronted with a rigid and abusive institution with children and staff. »
Mathilde recounts the days to be extended, the feeling that her students’ rights are not respected, the lack of response from the rectorate or managers, whether when reporting problematic situations or to obtain information. “I was always asking for access to lessons from the teachers of ‘ordinary’ classes. With the Covid, it was even worse. We had to manage everything. Often my students were forgotten devices. »
“The workload is very heavy”
And there is also the incomprehension of parents and the general public in the face of the distress of teachers. “We always come back to the question of holidays, when we have a very heavy workload. The energy you have to expend and the number of things to manage, it really surprised me when I started! »
After three and a half years of this regime, Mathilde cracks. Anxiety, fatigue, depression: the teacher is arrested. She does not intend to return to National Education at least from a radical change in the system. “I have a lot of concerns for the future: I don’t see how we can get out of this situation. People want to do things but we don’t give them the means. Today, Mathilde is still on sick leave, she plans to work in the disability sector within an association.