2023-09-01 21:02:09
Emmanuel Macron, accompanied by the Minister of Education, Gabriel Attal, and the Minister Delegate in charge of the vocational high school, Carole Grandjean, at the Argensol vocational high school, in Orange (Vaucluse), on September 1, 2023. LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP
This is a first: usually on the ground when students return to school, President Macron moved from the “pre-return” of teachers, Friday September 1, to a professional high school in Orange (Vaucluse). If education is the “reserved area” of the president, as Emmanuel Macron affirmed in the columns of the Point at the end of August, the vocational school is a « cause nationale », he says. The Minister of Education, Gabriel Attal, and the Minister Delegate in charge of the vocational high school Carole Grandjean, both at his side, will only speak to clarify certain details, in front of an audience gathered in the body shop of the high school. of the Argensol.
The objective of the trip, in addition to re-demonstrating the presidential commitment to educational matters, is to re-explain the challenges of the reform of the vocational high school. The latter welcomes a third of high school students, but two thirds of dropouts, reminds Emmanuel Macron to the public made up of staff from the establishment and national education executives, local elected officials, business leaders, the rector of Aix-Marseille Bernard Beignier and the President of the PACA Region, Renaud Muselier. Only 40% of vocational high school graduates have a job after completing their training, he adds.
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The ” strategy “, which is accompanied by an investment of one billion euros, is to play on three levers at the same time, further details the president: fight against school dropout, better guide young people, adapt the training map to the needs employment pools. In this regard, the Argensol high school offers a perfect example: its boilermaking specialty must be recalibrated to better meet the needs of the nuclear sector – the town of Orange is located about twenty kilometers from the Tricastin power plant.
“Teacher Pact”
To carry out these ambitions, the reform of the vocational high school has many components, and as many missions that will be carried out by the teachers in return for additional remuneration. This is the famous “teacher pact”, which, at the vocational school, can go up to six “bricks”, that is to say six missions per year, which can represent up to “550 euros net per month”, recalls the Head of State. However, this is where the shoe pinches: how many teachers will take the pact, the signature of which is not compulsory, and for how many “bricks” per teacher?
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A young 33-year-old teacher, Stéphane De Sa Barbosa, takes the microphone. As often in the professional path, teaching is his second career, he explains. Originally from Toulouse, where his partner lives, he was appointed to Orange and makes the trips every week. “Once I have paid the transport and the two rents, I barely have the minimum wage left.he explains. I have three hundred students to manage and I am already working six overtime hours, like many of my colleagues. We already give a lot, it’s hard to hear that we’re going to have to do even more. »
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