many classes lack teachers

While the teachers were back to school, Wednesday August 31, Sophie Venetitay, secretary general of the SNES-FSU, is the guest of franceinfo. She mentions “enthusiasm to see colleagues again, and then, afterwards, to prepare to see students again, since that is still the heart of our job and that is what we appreciate“. She nevertheless speaks of a return “very particular“due to the lack of teachers in some establishments.”In my high school, there is a lack of a history-geography teacher and a German teacher“, she testifies.

Asked about the reasons for these difficulties in finding teachers, Sophie Venetitay explains that “salary and working conditions are the two main reasons why, today, this profession no longer attracts“. If announcements of salary increases have been made by the government, she recalls that”in the early 1980s, a teacher starting out earned 2.2 times the minimum wage. Today, he earns 1.14 times the Smic“, rather encouraging graduates to favor other, more remunerative paths.