“The start of the 2024 school year alarms us to the highest degree”, worries the FCPE

The president of the Federation of Parents’ Councils calls for a revaluation of the profession.

“The start of the 2024 school year alarms us to the highest degree.” Guest of franceinfo Thursday May 9, Grégoire Ensel, president of the Federation of Parents’ Councils (FCPE), is concerned about the lack of teachers in nursery and elementary schools at the start of the September school year, after the first results of the eligibility tests for school teacher competitions (CRPE).

“We know that we are in difficulty recruiting teachers in certain academies”, recognized the Minister of National Education and Youth Nicole Belloubet, Thursday on franceinfo. In the academies of Créteil and Versailles“we know that there are recruitment difficulties, this is not true in all academies”.

The FCPE “expects structural things”

In the academies of Créteil and Versailles, “of course, we are going to have to recruit contractual staff for the next school year, we know that, we have been facing this difficulty for several years”, adds the minister. “Indeed, we are seeing a vocations crisis. As Nicole Belloubet says, this has been observed for several years. Each successive minister has been promising us a teacher in front of each student at the start of the school year for several years, and that’s For several years we have noticed that this is not the case.scathes Grégoire Ensel.

The FCPE, which he directs, “expects structural things” on the part of the government. “We are waiting to revalue this profession, because we do not attract candidates with insufficient salaries and a loss of meaning in the teaching profession“. Nicole Belloubet praised on franceinfo the “long term response” of the executive. In 2025, school teachers in training will be “compensated or paid 900 euros [par mois] the first year and 1,800 euros [par mois] the second year”while they complete their master’s degree.

“Very clearly, we do not attract future teachers with 900 euros per month for the first year,” reacts Grégoire Ensel. As for the hiring of contract workers to immediately remedy this “vocations crisis”, “it’s something which gives the illusion of the presence of adults in classes, but clearly shows the limits of the system. It doesn’t always allow students to progress as they should, and so that creates real problems in schooling”, he points.