“Recruitment through classified ads will have to stop very quickly,” warns Snes-FSU

Recruitment “on classified ads, this will have to stop very quickly”warned Sophie Vénétitay, general secretary of Snes-FSU and professor in Essonne, on franceinfo on Friday, September 6. According to a survey carried out by her secondary school union, there was a shortage of at least one teacher in 56% of French middle and high schools in September.

While the school year has started without a Minister of Education, Sophie Vénétitay is putting on the pressure: “It will be one of the new government’s emergencies. It’s even a file that is at the top of the pile”she explained.

Teacher wants to judge Michel Barnier “on the acts”even though she says she is surprised by her nomination given the results of the legislative elections. In any case, Sophie Vénétitay: “Very clearly, there is an emergency. We need to take care of National Education, it is a tipping point, it could collapse. We will need to take the right measures and change methods too, that is to say, listen to us”she explains.

Today the profession is not attractive enough, according to her: “The first solution to recruit teachers and pay them better is to improve their working conditions,” she suggests. “We cannot be satisfied in the seventh world power that we are not able to start the school year with a teacher in front of each class.”she concluded.