He wanted to pay tribute to "this great public service of National Education", "our most precious asset".
On his momentum, Prime Minister Jean Castex, who spoke during questions to the government on Tuesday in the National Assembly, continued: “National Education, this majority has particularly pampered it.
And we will continue to do so!
Patatras.
Less than a week after the assassination of Samuel Paty, the college professor targeted by the Conflans-Sainte-Honorine attack, and while the profession is undermined by a deep and lasting crisis of confidence, the verb has fallen as coarse salt on an open wound.
"Pampered?
He meant crushed right?
A teacher chokes on Twitter.
"Drowned?
Another one risks, when a third drives the point of irony: "One sentence worries me:
we will continue to do it
".
"Really not the reality experienced by teachers"
And under the keyword # JeSuisChoyée has been unfolding since Tuesday the litany of “gifts” that teachers believe they have received from the government.
A jumble: depreciated salaries, busy classes in high school, the contested reforms of the bac and Parcoursup, or the law on "the school of confidence", which in its article 1 intends a "duty of exemplarity" experienced as an attempt to muzzle them.
"I had toxic masks free of charge to protect myself at work # JeSuisChoyée", adds this professor, referring to DIM masks, which the State now advises not to wear, pending expert opinions on their possible dangerousness .
I got toxic masks for free to protect myself at work # JeSuisChoyée
- Madame La Phrase, pampered (@MadameLaLettre) October 20, 2020
"Pampered, this is really not the reality experienced by teachers", sums up Benoît Teste, spokesperson for the main teachers' union center, the FSU, pointing to "a strong disconnection" between power and classrooms, that the concert of recent tributes has not been enough to fill.
“We have to be honest: if these signs of support weren't there, we would be the first to regret it.
But they are not enough, there is such a gap between political speeches and real life!
»Notes Delphine Guichard, school principal in the center of France.
Amélie Hart-Hutasse, professor of history and geography, considers “dishonest” the speech of a government which “does not care about the conditions in which we work”.
“Organize calm debates with teens full of prejudices, at 35 per class, it will be necessary to explain to me how it is possible, she insists.
We need time and good working conditions to do that ”.
The only things that we deign to provide us for free to work on national education are the students.
😂 # I am cherished # I am a teacher
- Creamy (@Letoulouzingue) October 20, 2020
Likewise, repeated calls from the Minister of National Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer, inviting teachers to report their difficulties, are struggling to overcome the wall of mistrust.
"The dominant discourse of our hierarchy in the event of conflicts with parents is to say that we are a public service and that in the end, we must ensure that users are happy", says Clément Peyrotte, teacher and door - speech of the SE-Unsa union in the Val-de-Marne.
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