The French educational system “in a critical situation”. guest of Face to face with Apolline de Malherbe On BFMTV and RMC this Tuesday, François Bayrou spoke about the teacher shortage that looms over the start of the school year.
The president of the MoDem and High Commissioner for Planning claims to have raised the issue thirty years ago, in his book The decade of the ignorant, in which he predicted a situation like the one we know today. After a “backlash” on the education issue in the 1990s, the former minister believes there was a “slide” thereafter.
“It is very probably the most serious of the difficulties, the heaviest of the challenges that France faces,” says François Bayrou. “In the face of the world crisis we were armed, except that at the moment, our educational system is in a critical situation.”
Deploring the fact that establishments are obliged to carry out “job dating” and find teachers “sometimes in the good corner“, François Bayrou specifies having raised the issue with the Minister of National Education Pap Ndiaye.
“Overall Reconstruction”
In addition to the shortage of teachers, François Bayrou also evokes the working conditions of the latter, questioned in particular about the testimony in the columns of the Parisian from a teacher in the Parisian suburbs about the rise of Islam at school.
“There has to be a possibility of immediate alert for each teacher who finds himself in this type of situation in front of a class,” estimates the mayor of Pau, who, however, delays: “Believing that there are only these Islamist excesses that are the problem of French society, is to be wrong”.
On the education side, François Bayrou advocates “a general reconstruction” that would include the question of the “efficiency” of education in the transmission of knowledge, but also the issue of teachers’ discomfort and their salary.
“Quand on regarde les vrais chiffres de ce qu’il ya sur la feuille de paie des enseignants et que ce sont des Bac ++, on se dit qu’il ya quelque chose qui ne va pas”, declared-t-El.
A “general reconstruction”, therefore, to face, according to the High Commissioner for Planning, “this very serious crisis that is approaching, and that has already lasted forty years”.
Source: BFM TV
