According to the Minister of National Education, 50% of teachers are not at their posts for the resumption of school this week. A figure that makes Nicolas Beytout jump, who is offended to see a considerable proportion of teachers staying at home.
More than a million students returned to class, everywhere in France, Tuesday, and rather in good order.
Yes, this test has been successfully passed. Congratulations to all those, teachers, school directors, staff of the National Education, who participated. Here it is: I applauded, I said to what extent I found admirable the dedication of those who mobilized, to what point the health protocol drawn up by the ministry had made it possible to succeed in the beginnings of deconfinement. In short, I was politically correct.
Which means there is (or you have) another way of looking at it.
Yes. When I hear the minister point out that "almost 50% of the teachers" will go back to school, I can't help but see that it means that more than half of the teachers will stay at home. It is a considerable proportion. When I hear that "more than a million students" have returned to school, I can not hide the fact that there are five million (five times more, a considerable proportion there too), that remain outside the system.
Except that middle and high school is for later. And then there is distance education.
Yes of course. I still hope that the teachers will not continue to explain that it is the equivalent of a classroom, because we will end up wondering what is their real added value.
And, with regard to questions, here are others, politically incorrect: how is it that we feel in so many teachers so reluctant to return to their place in school? Could there be a Spring effect here or there? Or why not a political, union posture against government policy, which obviously exceeds the interests of the child?
How is it also that this ministry shelters so many fragile personnel, who are put on sick leave? How is it that teachers have the choice to put their children back in class or not, and thus allow themselves to be absent, to keep them? Is there not a glaring inequality in the transmission of knowledge? How is it that so many parents still do not know if, this week, next week, their offspring will be taken back to class, and moreover on what criteria (since they are not part of the professions priority)?
In any case, this is not at all the message delivered by the Ministry of National Education.
No, of course. So beware, I know that most teachers fulfill their mission well. But not all. And that, the ministry cannot say. A Minister of Education who wants to last must say that the teachers are admirable. Jean-Michel Blanquer is a good minister, and as he wants to last, he knows by heart the list of his predecessors who fell in disgrace, cannonaded by the unions for having risked a criticism of the teachers.
So he speaks on average, he says "the teachers are motivated, are involved". But this globality hides many disparities that the tongue-in-cheek prohibits naming, on pain of hearing all the guardians of the school temple cry out in blasphemy and, worse still, see them summon the ghost of Jules Ferry as a witness.