Gabriel Attal “used education as a political springboard”, reacts the SNES-FSU teachers’ union

“We rather have the impression that he was ultimately a man in a hurry, in a very hurry, who used education as a political springboard”reacted Sophie Venetitay, general secretary of SNES-FSU, after the appointment of the former Minister of Education to the post of Prime Minister. “It leaves a bitter taste”, she said about Gabriel Attal. According to her, “it is the image of an express passage with a minister who dragged National Education into a form of media whirlwind and in the end, will have been the minister of public opinion. From this point of view, he succeeded, but less so the Minister of National Education Personnel.” “There have been a lot of announcements and there are still many that have not changed much in the daily lives of staff”she says.

Sophie Venetitay asks Emmanuel Macron to stop treating “national education with great casualness”, after appointing the fourth minister in two years. “At some point, National Education will have to stop being the adjustment variable”, she says. The trade unionist does not want “a ‘wow’ effect with a particular person at National Education”but “a change of direction in the method”. But “if we could avoid the return of Jean-Michel Blanquer, it would be a good thing because he did not necessarily leave very good memories”she said.