Earlier this week, Gabriel Attal was pleased with the teachers’ unions of the quality of social dialogue at Bercy, as Minister of Public Accounts. Emmanuel Macron has just put his new Minister of National Education to the test.
The day after the interview with the “Point”, the unions denounce “the stranglehold of the Elysée” on national education. The criticisms relate first to the form. “Gabriel Attal is already almost disavowed”, judge Elisabeth Allain-Moreno, of SE-Unsa. The “reserved area” that the Head of State has officially granted himself is irritating all the more as it leads to “counter discussions on the school completely above ground”, gets carried away Guislaine David, co-secretary general of the first primary union, the FSU-SNUipp.
“We sell dreams to parents”
On the side of school leaders, the gap between the announcement effects and “reality” worries. As on the teacher pact supposed to allow replacements of absent teachers “overnight”. “We are selling dreams to parents, that’s the problem, warns Bruno Bobkiewicz, head of the main union of school heads, the SNPDEN. It is wrong to say that at the start of the school year any absent teacher will be replaced immediately. »
The announcement of the shortening of school holidays and the resumption of classes on August 20 for students in difficulty also goes badly.
Success courses have existed for a long time, but the prospect of their generalization is criticized. All the unions fear that this will be perceived as a punishment. “I am in difficulty at school and therefore, to me, I am going to eat two weeks of vacation? Hello Signal! says Bruno Bobkiewicz.
It is wrong to say that at the start of the school year any absent teacher will be replaced immediately
BRUNO BOBKIEWICZ General Secretary of the main head teachers’ union, the SNPDEN
The measure also raises logistical questions, because it would require the approval of mayors to reopen schools and provide for an early return of municipal staff, postpone the work carried out during the summer and deal with heat and climate change.
“A problem of school rhythms”
“There is a global problem of school rhythms, we admit to SNPDEN. But the proposals of the President of the Republic were not at all concerted. The unions plead for the treatment of the difficulty to be done during school time, for example using small groups, and not to be outsourced.
“Would we see the President of the Republic explain to a surgeon how he should operate on appendicitis?, Guislaine David annoys. Teachers are professionals, let them do it. “A project for the school, it is built with the main actors of National Education and that is what is missing”, insists Bruno Bobkiewicz.
political message
But are Emmanuel Macron’s words intended to be implemented? Asks a connoisseur of the sector. Or only to send a political message to the right?
The signals are quite clear. Like the proposal to “stop sending in 6e the 20% of students who cannot read, write and count”, which refers to the certificate of studies, repetition or the examination prior to entry into 6th grade – supported by LR during the presidential campaign of 2022 .
The President of the Republic also asked that “a great fundamental text on our values” be read and then debated each week, while overhauling the programs in history and “civic education” – this old name was chosen on purpose, while we have been talking about moral and civic education since 2016.
Emmanuel Macron makes another nod to the right by calling for chronological history programs. “We are taken aback because the programs already are, reacts Christine Guimonnet, from the association of history and geography teachers. To make believe that the chronology is absent from the programs, it is false and it is demagogic. Emmanuel Macron’s criticisms of “pedagogism” come from the same political register.
2023-08-24 20:48:04
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