In this survey, revealed by franceinfo and carried out in 500 establishments by the Snes-FSU, there is an average lack of at least one teacher in 48% of colleges and high schools in metropolitan France.
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A week after the start of the school year, there is a lack of a teacher in almost half of the schools in France according to a survey by Snes-FSU, the main union of teachers in colleges and high schools, revealed Monday, September 11 by franceinfo. More specifically, this survey, conducted in more than 500 establishments, indicates that there is an average lack of at least one teacher in 48% of colleges and high schools in mainland France.
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These findings from Snes-FSU contradict the affirmative remarks of the Minister of National Education, Gabriel Attal or even Emmanuel Macron indicating that there “will have a teacher in front of each student”.
The Créteil academy is the most affected
The information was sent by local union delegates last week and it is roughly the same trends as last year. Not all regions are affected in the same way. Unsurprisingly, the gaps in timetables are more numerous in the Créteil academy in particular, which brings together three departments in the east of Île-de-France.
The rectorate hires many contract workers there, obviously not enough yet. But the union also notes significant gaps in the Orléans-Tours academy, in that of Normandy and in certain cities such as Nantes.
The subjects most affected by these shortages are mathematics, a recurring problem in this discipline, but there is also a significant shortage of engineering science teachers (a specialty relating to science and technology in the fields of mechanics or even computer science), or English.