Lower purchasing power, overloaded classes, hours of work: The Senate has seized the question of the working conditions of teachers, in preparation for the consideration of the bill of finance 2022, which it rejected November 23rd.
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French teachers spend, on average, more time in front of their students than their European counterparts for lower wages. Their classes are more charged in primary education and are more likely to feel socially valued.
A severe statement drawn up by Jean-François Husson, Senator The Republicans of Meurthe-et-Moselle, in a report on the 2022 budget of national education. The Senate, mostly right, has rejected the bill of finance presented by the government on 23 November. On education, the first state budget, with 56.5 billion euros, Mr. Husson castigates the chronic lack of attractiveness of the teaching profession, in high stall compared to the rest of the European Union ( EU) – but also compared to private employees.
The text, which notes an increase in the national education budget of 2.6% in the Bill of Finance 2022, nevertheless greets the progress of the Grenelle of Education, which allowed, over two years, improve the remuneration of the youngest teachers. But the observations, already established by other bodies, including the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), remain: at the end of the career, the salary of college teachers, in France, is 10,000 euros at the average of the European Union. At the elementary school, the dropout of wages is particularly striking – especially compared to Germany, economically comparable, where the gross salary at the beginning of the career exceeds 65,000 euros, for 31,000 euros in France.
Lower purchasing power
The progression of French wages, which are starting down and increase in the middle and end of career, is “very disincidentive for new entrants”, can we read in the Senate report. Not to mention that the purchasing power of teachers deteriorated in twenty years, since it decreased by 15% to 25% between 2000 and 2019 in constant euros – the decrease varied according to the levels and the body of attachment of the teachers. This fall is stabilizing thanks to the rebalancing salary measures adopted in recent years, however, specifies the Senate. But it “will weigh a long time on the salary of teachers”.
To compare working conditions, the Senate has also been interested in other criteria measured by the OECD, including the number of hours spent in front of the students. “Teachers in France spend more time teaching that their colleagues in European countries on average, and in Germany in particular,” concludes the report, which gives the 900 hour “regulatory” figure in front of the students a year for a teacher primary school, while a German counterpart does only 691.
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