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Faced with the health crisis, the shortage of substitutes worsened in schools

2021-12-17T12:40:49.372Z


With classes without teachers sometimes for weeks and families forced to organize themselves, the lack of substitutes in schools has ...


With classes without a teacher sometimes for weeks and families forced to organize themselves, the lack of replacements in schools has worsened at the end of the year in the midst of the Covid outbreak, arousing the exasperation of parents of students and teachers who fear that this trend will continue in the fall. The dissatisfaction and the resourcefulness became more and more visible before the start of the Christmas holidays on Friday. In recent weeks, parents of students have demonstrated in Saint-Ouen and Bobigny in Seine-Saint-Denis or in Versailles in Yvelines, others have made petitions throughout France, teachers have mobilized as in Roubaix (North), while the National Education launched an appeal to retired teachers in Seine-et-Marne for lack of staff.

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"

The replacement situation is clearly our main problem today

," explains Laurent Zameczkowski, vice-president of the federation of parents of pupils, Peep.

"

The lifts are coming from all sides

", he continues, estimating that "

the health crisis has come to explode the situation

".

For him, "

on returning from vacation, following the holidays, there is necessarily a concern

", while "

deadlines arrive, especially with regard to the bac with the March test

".

"

We have been undergoing the health crisis for two years and, at a time when the parents of the pupils thought they would resume a more normal rhythm at work, they find themselves having to keep their children at home (...). anger and worried,

”adds Nageate Belahcen, co-president of the Federation of Parents' Councils (FCPE).

"

We will be very vigilant and above all very demanding from the start of the January school year,

" she promises, denouncing an "

explosive climate

".

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On its Ouyapacours platform, the FCPE identifies nearly 23,000 hours of lessons already lost this year throughout France due to non-replacement. In some places, including Ile-de-France, the situation is very tense, especially in Seine-Saint-Denis where the phenomenon is already structural: according to a parliamentary report from 2019, a student loses on average one year on the all of his schooling due to the difficulty of replacing teachers. "

In this period, we accumulate because we have both the health crisis which causes the absence of teachers and the fact that we are in the worst period of the school year in terms of circulation of viruses such as influenza, gastro

" , analysis Guislaine David, general secretary of Snuipp-FSU, the first primary school union.

"

Not enough recruitments

"

For the Minister of National Education Jean-Michel Blanquer, the problem is partly "

structural

" - a recent report from the Court of Auditors pointed to the mismanagement of teacher absences - and partly "

cyclical

". "

It is quite correct that there is more absenteeism at this time because of the health crisis

", he admitted Wednesday before the Senate. But "

we face

", he assured, stressing that the replacements represent "

about 9% of the workforce

" in the primary, that is to say a breeding ground "

important

". In practice, however, replacements are lacking. "

No post has been planned in addition since the start of the school year

», Deplores Sophie Vénétitay, general secretary of Snes-FSU, the first teaching union in secondary education.

In the primary, "

we have been in this health situation for almost two years so the ministry should have provided for additional recruitment,

" said Guislaine David.

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For her, the ministry should call on the complementary lists, that is to say the candidates who had the competition but were not recruited. "

It would be enough to draw teachers from it

". The use of contract workers, used by National Education, has its limits, she adds. "

We do not find enough because they do not necessarily want to replace a teacher for three months, in a very complicated health context

". The ministry recognizes "

the difficulty of recruiting contract workers, in a context of tension on the qualified employment market.

".

Also in question, the loss of attractiveness of a profession which is experiencing defections.

According to figures given in early November by Jean-Michel Blanquer, there were nearly 1,600 resignations last year.

They were 1399 in 2017-2018, and only 637 in 2012-2013.

Source: lefigaro

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