The Minister must implement the roadmap set by Emmanuel Macron, who has made the school a major project of his second mandate, while the profession is going through an unprecedented “attractiveness” crisis.
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The exercise is unprecedented, and the symbol unequivocal: a few days before the start of the school year, Emmanuel Macron decided to launch himself the school year himself by bringing together the Academy rectors in Sorbonne, Thursday August 25 in the morning . A first. During this meeting, which intervenes the day before the return press conference of his new Minister of Education, Pap Ndiaye, the president must return “to his ambition for the school and will present the issues of the new method for the ‘National Education, like the experiment carried out within the framework of Marseille in large, “specifies the Elysée.
One way for Emmanuel Macron to reaffirm that he has placed educational subjects at the heart of this second five -year period – he who promised the revaluation of teachers’ salaries, a “new pact” with this profession, a “great consultation” On the school which is to take place this fall … A way, too, to position its new minister before its first school year, while difficult files accumulate. The first of them being, of course, the teaching vocation crisis, the consequences of which could observe the realization of the roadmap set by Emmanuel Macron.
Because this start of the school year presents a first puzzle to be resolved: while there were 4,000 teachers missing (including 1,700 in primary) out of a total of 880,000 after the various spring recruitment competitions, the Can National Education hammer that there will be a teacher in front of each class at the start of the school year? Questioned by the National Assembly, in early August, Pap Ndiaye recognized a “more difficult than usual” situation and an use of contract workers “more important than [he] not wish [to]”.
Worry in academies
The institution assumes the increased appeal to contract workers, whose express training must start on Thursday – and ensures everything to fill the latest gaps. On the move to the rectorate of Créteil, on August 23, the Minister of Education wanted to be more reassuring than during his hearing before the Assembly. He even described a situation “comparable or even slightly better than last year at the same time”, in this academy faced with a chronic recruitment problem – and therefore, by ricochet, of replacement of absent in the coming weeks.
“The minister has a good departure credit with the profession, notes an academic accustomed to the rue de Grenelle, but there is a big risk that this capital will be lost if the start of the school year goes badly, and Especially if there is a lack of teachers trained in front of the students. “Because this is one of the fears of the unions, who challenge the expression” a professor in front of each class “, taken up by the minister in front of the cameras, the 23rd August, by pointing a much more contrasting reality on the ground.
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