“Last week we were 10 out of 34 colleagues”, says Deborah, professor at a REP college in Vitry-sur-Seine (Val-de-Marne). In ten years in her establishment, this is the first time that she sees “So many absences not replaced“. “The students are no longer in a working atmosphere”, she laments.
See our report: Vitry-sur-Seine: anger against non-replaced absences from school
Contractuals until February
To face the problem, the Minister of Education Jean-Michel Blanquer announced at the end of November the recruitment of 6,000 contractual replacements for the first degree and 8,000 educational assistants (AED) for colleges and high schools until the holidays. from February.
According to the ministry, this brings the pool of replacements to around 80,000. In total, 8% to 9% of teachers were counted as staff “Vulnerable“, Which does not necessarily mean that they do not come to class or do not give lessons, it is specified.
For the unions, the account is not there. “The Covid-19 is added to the seasonal illnesses which rage from November to February and only complicates the problem”, says Guislaine David, general secretary of Snuipp-FSU, the first primary union.
According to her, recruiting over a period of only three months is not the right method: “From September, we would have had to anticipate and seek personnel that we would have had time to train”.
“The Covid is wreaking havoc”, notes Pascale Poussier, director of a unionized school at SE-Unsa in Argenteuil (Val-d’Oise). The epidemic would have “Tripled the needs” of replacements, according to his calculations. This week, his school has 7 absent teachers: two are sick, one is positive for the coronavirus and four are “contact cases”. Only two could be replaced, underlines the director, herself in forced telework.
The Créteil academy particularly affected
Some academies are particularly affected, such as that of Créteil, chronically confronted with a shortage of teachers. “All our energy is absorbed in fighting to have a teacher in a class (…). It is exhausting, we have the impression of wasting our energy in something other than our core business ”, regrets Cyrille Micheletta, teacher in CE1 in Vitry and local representative of Snuipp-FSU. For its part, the rectorate says on its side fully “Mobilized” On the question.
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In secondary education, there are also “Tensions higher than usual due to Covid-19”, describes Sophie Vénétitay, from Snes-FSU, the first union. Now the “Responses provided are not appropriate”, according to her, because the educational assistants – the former “pawns” – do not provide actual class hours.
In a college in Boulogne-Billancourt (Hauts-de-Seine), a professor of technology, a vulnerable staff, has been absent since the start of the year and has not provided any distance learning courses. “We have asked for a replacement but the rectorate replies that there is no longer a breeding ground”, explains the main one.
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“My daughter, in 4th year, has not had history and geography lessons for three weeks and this will be the case until the next vacation”, Also testifies Nageate Belahcen, president of the FCPE (parents of pupils) of Val-de-Marne. “Our kids did not have lessons in the first confinement, there they do not have lessons in the second, we are announcing a third wave, we wonder when they will be able to have all of their lessons”, she worries.
by Isabelle TOURNÉ / Marine PENNETIER
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