Maxime Reppert, national secretary for working conditions for the National Union of Schools, Colleges and High Schools (Snalc), judged Monday, September 12 on franceinfo the statements of the Minister of Education “shocking“. Pap Ndiaye estimated that the start of the school year was “good” despite recruitment difficulties: “iThere is every reason to be satisfied with a back to school that we were otherwise promised to be bad, even catastrophic“, declared the minister on franceinfo.
“The start of the school year was good,” says the Minister of Education, Pap Ndiaye, who does not confirm the figures of the SNES-FSU study which speaks of 62% establishments where at least one teacher is missing. pic.twitter.com/Yxgckdi5jW
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Maxime Reppert recalled that “most contract workers who have been hired receive only four days of training” whereas “at McDonald’s employees benefit from up to five days“. The Minister also announces that teachers at the start of their career will receive 2,000 euros from September 2023. These are “promises of upgrades” who “are not born today“, emphasizes Maxime Reppert.
franceinfo: Do you think that the start of the new school year went well, as your minister says?
Mainly Reppert : I completely disagree with his diagnosis. We can be satisfied if the objective was to put an adult in front of the students. But I find this statement somewhat shocking. Most contract workers who have been hired receive only four days of training. I have absolutely nothing against contractors. We need it, but I regret this very weak supervision and this training which is ridiculous. At McDo, employees receive up to five days of training to serve burgers. I am shocked that in the National Education, we spend less time training teachers.
The announcement of an exceptional competition in the spring open to contract workers to reduce their number, does that seem like a good thing to you?
Opening contest sessions is one thing. It is still necessary that the candidates respond present. In the space of 20 years, for the Capes, we have gone from 50,000 candidates to nearly 20,000. So, we still have a 60% drop, which should make you think. Indeed, the methods of recruitment have evolved. We went from bac+3 to bac+5, but the question of attractiveness is central. These promises of revaluations to 2,000 euros are not born today. They already existed under the ministry of Jean-Michel Blanquer. They were mentioned during the first five-year term of Emmanuel Macron. These are promises. We are given figures for early careers, nothing for mid-careers. I have been teaching for fifteen years. After fifteen years of service, the base salary is 2,000 euros.
What are you actually expecting?
The Minister, in the short term, has no choice: he is obliged to hire contract workers. He has no choice because he showed a cruel lack of anticipation. Under Jean-Michel Blanquer too. He is obliged to hire contract workers, who, by the way, for some, resign after a few days. I see colleagues who, after a few days, say to themselves that indeed, they are not made for that and decide to resign.
“We need real training for contractual colleagues and really work on the attractiveness of the profession.”
Maxime Reppert, secretary of the national union of schools, colleges and high schools (Snalc)on franceinfo
There is the question of remuneration, it is unavoidable. And also, the question of working conditions. There is also the way teachers are treated. There is still physical and psychological violence that tends to become commonplace, an absence of occupational medicine worthy of the name, a number of staff that are still numerous and missions that are increasingly complex. We are witnessing a loss of meaning in the teaching profession.