A week before the start of the academic year, the SE-Unsa teachers’ union is on Thursday alerting “fragilityThe educational system, tested by the health crisis and successive reforms, is facing a major recruitment crisis this year.
“Our education system is approaching breaking point“, the general secretary of SE-Unsa, one of the main trade unions for primary and secondary education, Stefan Crochet, announced during a meeting with journalists.
It’s hard to “get over”
A shortage of teachers, coupled with a crisis in the attractiveness of the profession, has prompted the government to recruit large numbers of contract workers to ensure the start of the school year. Despite this, “we are not really sure that we will manage to have staff in every class. And after the start of the new school year, it’s the weeks that follow that can be very difficultHe warned, regretting the lack of anticipation of the upcoming replacements. “This can’t make it through the entire school year“, the official of the union thinks.
To prevent these difficulties, he calls, as Snuipp-FSU did on Tuesday, for the immediate recruitment of all additional tender lists to secure manpower. And underlines the need to secure the status of contract workers and revise the salary grid for existing workers. Emmanuel Macron reminded the rectors and rectors gathered at the Sorbonne on Thursday of the government’s commitment to guarantee a net salary of at least 2,000 euros per month to any beginning teacher.
Regarding this goal, Stéphane Crochet notes that SE-Unsa wanted this improvement to benefit teachers.”from the internship year” and not from their tenure. Otherwise, “€2,000 is the number we set ourselves a target for“, but”in 2020“, he announced. Taking into account inflation, this amount should be re-evaluated.”today for a pretty 2,200 euros“, According to him.
Source: Le Figaro
