On Thursday, numerous signs and slogans brandished by striking teachers directly attacked Amélie Oudéa-Castéra.
“I am absolutely not indifferent, in life I do not hide my emotions, I have learned to use them as a force to move forward”, attempts to sweep away, this Friday morning on TF 1, the Minister of National Education and of Sports, who will not “resign”.
Stalked upon her arrival at Rue de Grenelle for her clumsy remarks about public schools, the minister recognizes a difficulty, but in no way a targeting.
The call for mobilization, “very followed”, the minister conceded, had been tabled on December 22, before her appointment, she noted.
The FSU announced a rate of 47% of strikers in middle and high schools, compared to 20.26% in the 1st and 2nd degrees advanced by the ministry, a rate in both cases high.
“I hear the expression of a desire to defend public schools, that suits me very well.
Public school, I come from it, I know what I owe it,” insisted Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, her unalterable smile clinging to her face.
“I apologized, I explained myself, now let’s move forward”
Asked about the fact that she could be threatened by this big founding hiccup while Emmanuel Macron and Gabriel Attal must complete the government, she retorts that “neither one nor the other is in the mood, they want ministers who know what they want to do and who work to do it, I am in action and I want to contribute to the success of the school because I think I have a lot to contribute.”
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“It’s Gaston Lagaffe”: In the Parisian procession, the teachers blithely criticize their new minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra
In response to the Unsa union, which considered that her beginnings at the ministry were “catastrophic”, the one who has also been Minister of Sports and Youth since May 2022 recognizes this: “The beginning was not good, obviously.
But we have to look at the way in which I have started to move forward three weeks ago, the meetings with the trade union organizations, my phased roadmap before the Superior Council of Education, by going into the field,” she explains. .
And to say it again: “I apologized, I explained myself, now let’s move forward”.