worry one week before the white French baccalaureate
A few days before the white French baccalaureate, the parents of students in a first class at the Toulouse-Lautrec high school in Toulouse are angry and worried. The French teacher has been absent since the start of the school year in January and has not been restored. A situation that would concern several establishments in Toulouse.
“Without French lessons for a month, our children parent with a certain disability for the white baccalaureate and the baccalaureate“, worries Delphine, mother of a student in first general at the Toulouse-Lautrec high school in Toulouse.
Her son’s French teacher has been absent since the start of the school year in January. A few days before the white baccalaureate for this same subject, which will take place on February 2, the parents’ concern is giving way to anger. “The first is a pivotal year for French, continue the student mother. The white baccalaureate grades competent for continuous assessment, and we are even afraid for the baccalaureate itself since we do not know when their teacher will be delegated and if she will be.“
The high school tells the parents that it has responded to a request for replacement from the rectorate, but the response is pending. Parents of students have also sent emails to the Toulouse Academy to alert them to the situation. They all received the same response:
“The situation you mention has been brought to our attention. All the services concerned are mobilized in the search for a replacement solution.“
This is a stressful situation for the students. They wonder if they will have a French course before the baccalaureate, because apparently several establishments in Toulouse are concerned. A high school would even have a French teacher absent and not replaced since November.
Delphine, mother of a first general student
The educational team of the Toulouse-Lautrec high school tries somehow to reassure its students. “They were told that the thesis test would be set up to respond to what they had seen since the beginning of the year, which is to say not much, sorry Delphine. They also have access to online documents to help them revise, but that does not replace a teacher.“
This situation, which is the direct consequence of the lack of teachers, is unfortunately not an isolated case. “As there are unfilled positions, replacement teachers are assigned to fixed positions, and when there is a need for short-term replacements, there are no more.», explains Abdallah Amghar, CGT Educ’Action 31 secretary, himself a substitute teacher of eco-management in a professional high school. This applies to both college and high school education.
The rectorate operates at tight flow, with a crying lack of teachers. He tried to fill this gap with contract workers, but many have been released since the beginning of the year because it was too hard. You don’t become a teacher overnight.
Abdallah Amghar, secretary CGT Educ’Action 31
“Today, policies are paid in accordance with for years, continues the professor. The conditions for exercising the profession of teacher are more and more difficult, the salary is not attractive, and therefore to understand fewer and fewer young people are provided by the profession and we can only.”
“Some subjects are particularly deficient in recruitment. Before we talk about mathematics, today it is the case of French“, adds Sylvain Lagarde, academic secretary of the SNES FSU Toulouse, himself a professor of letters. How to explain it? “We are in a society of the ‘start-up nation’, where we are told that we need engineers and computer scientists. In this ambient discourse, the teaching of French is not really highlighted», Analyzes the professor of letters.
These two teachers regret the silence of the rectorate in the face of the numerous alerts raised by their unions. Contacted, the Toulouse-Lautrec high school as well as the rectorate of the Toulouse academy did not respond to our requests either.