2024-01-13 20:11:05
His comments caused controversy. The Minister of National Education Amélie Oudéa-Castéra “regrets” having been able to “hurt certain teachers” in the public and assures that she will “always” be at the “side” of “public schools and their teachers”, she said Saturday. The day before, she had mentioned her “frustration” with the hours not replaced in public education to justify the schooling of her children in a private Catholic establishment in Paris.
“My comments may have offended certain public education teachers, which I regret. I had no such intention,” wrote Amélie Oudéa-Castéra in a statement sent to the media, indicating that she responded “straight-forward,” “with sincerity and transparency,” to a question asked. “I know what I owe to public schools and their teachers. I will always be at their side, as I will be alongside the entire educational community,” she adds.
“The French expect us to be lucid about the difficulties. And they expect us to act to treat them,” she says. “Last school year, 15 million hours were not replaced. This is a loss of opportunity for our youth and their education,” she emphasizes. “We made a fight out of this problem. Already going from 5 to 15% of absences replaced. By changing the organization of training so that it no longer takes place in front of students,” she adds.
” There’s still much to do. And I committed as soon as I took office to take up this fight, by continuing the reforms initiated aimed at the revaluation of careers”, she continues, assuring that she will meet “in the very next few days all the actors of the ‘National Education “.
“Own goal”
On the sidelines of a trip to a college in Yvelines on Friday, the minister explained that she had chosen to enroll her eldest son at Stanislas due in particular to “the packets of hours which were not seriously replaced” in the public establishment where he previously attended school. “At one point, we got fed up, like hundreds of thousands of families who, at one point, made the choice to seek a different solution,” she said.
Video. “We got fed up”: Amélie Oudéa-Castéra explains why her children are educated in the private sector
These statements immediately aroused the anger of the education unions. “These are provocative and scandalous remarks which certainly show the limits of a minister, who from her first outing, achieved the feat of scoring an own goal,” criticized the general secretary of Snes-FSU, Sophie Vénétitay. , on France Info Friday night. “She has quite simply brought public schools into disrepute even though she is their minister,” she added.
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