Is it because he had the good taste to accept their invitation? Traveling to the Dordogne on Friday July 8, the new Minister of Education, Pap Ndiaye was received like a prince by the members of the General Association of Kindergarten Teachers (Ageem) who have been meeting since Wednesday July 6 in Boulazac to the 95th national convention…
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Is it because he had the good taste to accept their invitation? Traveling to the Dordogne on Friday July 8, the new Minister of Education, Pap Ndiaye was received like a prince by the members of the General Association of Kindergarten Teachers (Ageem) who have been meeting since Wednesday July 6 in Boulazac to the 95th national convention in their history.
No demands, no ad nominem arrests: for an hour, Jean-Michel Blanquer’s successor swam in benevolence, moving from one stand to another without having to manage the unpredictable behavior of dissatisfied, even dissatisfied teachers. Pap Ndiaye would have come alone without his group of advisers glued to the Basques that he would not have been more annoyed: traditionally come to Ageem professionals more invested than rebellious. “We are here to work, to exchange ideas, we are not in the union fight”, concedes Jocelyne, teacher in the Loire. The main thing is to have our profession recognized, of course, but also to advance pedagogy”.
Kindergarten plan
“More work on language and on learning mathematics”: the Kindergarten plan presented in broad outline by the new Minister of Education at the desk of the Ageem congress did not cause more turmoil in the ‘assistance. “We were reassured to hear that the minister wanted to make a plan, but gently, without necessarily turning everything upside down,” argues the president of Ageem, Maryse Chrétien. “I think he understood that kindergarten had to be considered as a space where the acquisition of language and the rudiments of mathematics goes through various activities, agrees Frédérique, a volunteer from Ageem. The main thing for us is that he can measure that kindergarten is neither a nursery nor a simple antechamber to primary school, but a school in its own right”.
Failing to be salient, the speech of the president of Ageem, Maryse Chrétien, will have less had the merit of delicately approaching the thorny subject of the recruitment of teachers. “We must not resort to job dating to recruit teachers”, slipped the boss of Ageem to the minister before recalling the need to train teachers throughout their careers and to ensure that they can be accompanied by Atsem in class. “The word job dating does not correspond to our recruitment procedures, answered him a little later by microphones interposed the Minister of Education. In the Bordeaux Academy, contract teachers represent 7% of the teaching staff. »
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