In case of absence, school heads are often deprived. A structural situation, reinforced by the sanitary crisis and the crisis of vocations.
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There was a time to recruit a teacher by “small ad” raised almost the joke – of the “bad joke”, bring the heads. The idea was to alert the opinion on the replacement defects, to denounce the “holes in the racket”.
Back to school after re-entry, facing recurrent difficulties in finding candidates, numerous heads of establishment are committed to the “system”: post an offer on lebonnoin or in the local press, call on pole Employment, here ask an education assistant, there at an accompanying student with disabilities to get proficient. Playing “solidarity between teachers”, they also tell, asking the “present” to take the class of the “absent” (by an exchange of lessons or overtime).
Primary school is not left out: it needs, when replacements are missing, dividing students between classes (“even the health protocol asks to avoid brewing”, storm A director in the North), or even leave the doors open and make a horse teacher work between two rooms.
two months without French
This “acute crisis” of replacement, as teachers say, parents of students also denounce it. It was in this return, in a college of the Academy of Versailles, a class of 4 e which adds two months of lossed mathematics and French classes. Or these two classes of 5 e , in a college of the Seine-Saint-Denis, who do not have French lessons, and four classes that no longer have history-geography.
In an elementary school of the Seine-Saint-Denis, still, a class of CE2 saw the replacement of a teacher who had not presented, in September, to be pale in turn. “Some days, we left the children in the hallway, playing or making drawings, tells a mom. Then it was the replacement of the replacement that did not show up … we have very little visibility on The rest of the year. “same type of testimony in a kindergarten where, in fifteen days, four substitutes have succeeded students in front of small section students. “It’s simple, no child does not know who is the mistress,” regrets a parent.
“The vivier of the substitutes is dry”, it is hammering in the union ranks, despite the commitment made by the Ministry of Education in 2020, in the full epidemic of Covid-19, of Inject up to 6,000 contractuals for the first degree, and 8,000 educational assistants in colleges and high schools, as “exceptional means” (not all consumed) that ended with summer holidays. “Gaps” are prior to the sanitary crisis, we have been on the side of the FSU, recalling that, year after year, the competitions of teaching do not make “the full”, and oblige to affect on a full time position a good part of the replacements. The rise in resignations does not help.
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