While 12 million schoolchildren, high school students and high school students return to school this Monday, September 1, the Minister of National Education is in the RTL antenna this morning that “99.9%” of teachers’ positions are busy and that “the equivalent of 2,500 teachers” are missing.
“99.9% of the positions are provided well in the first degree” and “second grade positions are almost not provided,” says Elisabeth Borne.
However, Elisabeth Borne confesses confesses that “since every year the teaching hours are not completely covered and represent 0.7% of the teaching hours.”
“As many teachers as at the beginning of the 2024 school year”
While the SNES-FSU Union deplores the absence of a teacher “in front of each class”, the National Minister of Education specifies that “the equivalent of 2,500 teachers” will miss “in hours of teaching”, is “less than last year.”
“This return there are 100,000 less students, but as many teachers who at the beginning of the 2024 school year. I asked the rectors to strengthen the replacement teams to have a teacher at the beginning of the school year and throughout the year,” he added.
For students from Bouches-Du-Rhône and Var, the beginning of the school year will wait a bit. It was postponed to Tuesday, September 2 due to a Mediterranean episode that caused orange surveillance storms and rainfall in several departments.
Source: BFM TV
