The two federations of teachers’ unions say they are concerned that 30,000 unqualified teachers were teaching in Quebec schools in 2020-2021, as Auditor General Guylaine Leclerc reported on Thursday, but they are hardly surprised.
“Yes it is alarming. Yes we are worried. But we are not surprised, because it agrees with what we have been saying for years, ”said Josée Scalabrini, president of the Federation of Education Unions (FSE), affiliated with the CSQ, in an interview on Friday.
She also expressed concern that the Auditor General pointed out that the Ministry of Education does not seem to be too aware of what is happening in schools, that there is a lack of data.
The president of the Autonomous Federation of Education (FAE), Mélanie Hubert, has the same concerns and is no more surprised.
She also invites us not to throw stones at these unqualified teachers, who come to lend a hand to other teachers who are exhausted.
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